Sun | Oct 20, 2024

Man fatally shot during supermarket robbery in St Elizabeth

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 12:23 PM
An investigation is being undertaken by the Maggotty Criminal Investigation Branch.

The police in St Elizabeth are searching for hoodlums who shot and killed a man during a robbery at a supermarket in Maggotty.

The deceased has been identified as 62-year-old Aggrey Atkinson of Russell in Balaclava the parish.

Reports are that about 12:10 p.m. on Saturday, Atkinson was at the supermarket when he was shot by armed men during a robbery of the establishment.

He was assisted to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. 

An investigation is being undertaken by the Maggotty Criminal Investigation Branch.

- Rasbert Turner

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