Investigators are following strong leads in their probe into the shooting of eight persons at a funeral on Windward Road in Kingston yesterday afternoon.
Shortly after three o’clock, mourners were outside King’s Chapel Seventh Day Adventist Church when three armed men arrived in a car. They alighted from the vehicle and opened fire on persons standing along Central Avenue just outside the churchyard.
Two of the eight persons who were shot later died. They have been identified as Ashley Hobson,20 and Delroy Salesman 34.
SSP Sutherland confirmed that a man is under investigation in connection with the shooting.RJR News was informed that the man, believed to be one of the suspects, was held and severely beaten by residents of West Street. He is in hospital under police guard.
The funeral was being held for Romaine White otherwise called “Boisey”, a resident of Matthews Lane in West Kingston. He was fatally stabbed in downtown Kingston on November 29.
