The driver of a hearse on funeral duties has been numbered among two fatalities from a drive-by shooting in the Waltham Park area of St Andrew on Sunday.
Mourners who were viewing the body of the deceased and preparing for a church service elsewhere, then a motorcade to Annotto Bay, St Mary, where the body was to be interred, came under heavy gunfire from men who came to the location on motorbikes
The attack left Michael Bent, a hearse driver with Tranquillity Funeral Home, and a teenage boy, Dontae Jackson, dead.
A little child and a woman were also injured in the attack.
The police reported that the incident took place at approximately 10:20 a.m. in the 77 Lane community, where four men travelling on motorcycles drove up and opened gunfire at the group of mourners.
Bent and Jackson were pronounced dead at hospital, while the two others were treated for their injuries.
Despite the tragedy, the funeral service, which was for a woman from the community where the shooting occurred, reportedly took place later in the day, with another hearse being used to complete the assignment.
How can us as regular citizens fix this crime problem? What can we do in our everyday life to help curb this problem? Poor man just doing his job. My gosh
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY DEM COULD’NT KETCH NAAAAASTY EQUAY AND LEAVE DI POOR HEARSE DRIVER??????????? TIIIIIME IS THE MASTER, BUT AH YEARSSSSSSSSSS DEM AH GWAAN LIKE DEM ROLL THUNDER AND THAT BART SIMPSON LOOKING MOTHERFU@KER NEEDS TO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JOIN HIS STINKING SIBLINGS!!!!!
All me good good tailor a go bout him business and pick up a shot. The man could a dead fi f**kery! The place tense.
Wtf is Equay????
This is beyond awful. The dead get no respect.
This is so sad. My condolence is with the families of the deceased. What are our politicians doing to eradicate these monsters? Was the shooting related to the deceased whose funeral it was? This is just sad.
Life really bad when not even a funeral service cant be doe without all these unnecessary drama.
KMT
@Anonymous 7:07pm, NOT AN EARTHLY POSSIBLE THING! These nasty, scums of society, called politicians, as you know, are in bed with these pieces of shit! The DIRRRRRTY Labourite councilor bitch, from Cassia Park, named Bev; years ago, had given the intended target, which is the shovel mout’ shark jangkruh, called Equay, her child’s documents, so he could flee to America, at one point when the “heat was on”. And as God would have it, he came to America and robbed his “boss”, Clive. My dear, it’s been long, but TIIIIIME is the master!!!!! Police killed two (2) brothers of his about three (3) months ago, mi SORRY dem never ketch di ugly, water mout’ fu@ka, too!
So Equay is back in Jamaica, after being deported to Jamaica? Who are the guys who are after him to the point where they have to shoot up a funeral?
Bev = Beverley Prince, JLP Councilor from St. Andrew – Division: Cassia Park!