The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

A MAN from Kennedy Subdivison became the country’s latest murder victim when he was gunned down outside his home shortly before midnight on Friday.

Although his identity was unconfirmed, The Tribune understands that the country’s 104th victim for the year is 41-year-old Garth Major of 32 Zinnia Court.

Major is reported to have arrived at his home at 11.55pm Friday when he was held up by two gunmen who opened fire on him.

The assailants, wearing hoodies and armed with a hand gun and a “long” firearm, fled the area on foot.

Officers arrived at the scene and found the man lifeless with multiple gunshot wounds to his body.

Friday night’s murder was the third for last week when all of the victims were either on their way home or killed in the area where they lived.

Last Thursday, November 29, around 12.30am, 32-year-old Patrick Bodie was gunned down as he was walking home through a track road between Gibbs Corner and Thompson Lane.

On the way to his home, he was approached by an unknown man who opened fire on him, hitting him multiple times in his body.

When police arrived at the scene, Bodie was still breathing, but was unconscious. He was taken to hospital by ambulance where he died of his injures shortly before 3am.

Days earlier, on Monday, December 3, Gamble Heights resident 23-year-old Diego Major was shot and killed in the area of Sunrise Road, Gamble Heights around 3.10am.

Police received an anonymous call from a woman alerting them to a shooting in the area of Sunrise Road, Gamble Heights.

When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Deigo, lying on his right side with apparent gunshot wounds to the chest and head. EMS personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

All three murders are being actively investigated by police. Anyone with information on any of these homicides is asked to contact the police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or crime stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.