The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was shot and killed early yesterday morning on his way to work during an armed robbery off Soldier Road.

The murder occurred around 7am and took the country’s murder count to 60 for the year, according to The Tribune’s records.

Officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit (CDU) Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle said the victim was picking up co-workers when he was approached by two men armed with handguns, who demanded cash.

“Police were called to a scene off Emmanuel Way where we were told that gunshots were discharged. When we arrived on the scene we learned that a gentleman pulled up in his white truck with some workers to collect some other workers,” Chief Supt Rolle said.

“A silver Honda pulled up behind them and two men exited with handguns and demanded cash and jewellery. The suspects relieved him of his cash and jewellery and shot him several times before leaving the area in the Honda. The victim died on the scene.”

The victim has been identified by police as 41-year old Trevor Smith of Catnip Close, Fox Hill.

The murder comes 24 hours after the partially decomposed body of a woman in her early 20s was found in a lake off Coral Harbour.

That victim has been identified as 24-year-old Samantha Johnson of Sapodilla Boulevard.

Police said the victim was discovered in a body of water on a dirt road, about a mile off the Airport Road, by a man hunting birds.

Police said the woman was found around 10.30am, submerged in shallow waters.

Up to press time, police had no suspects in custody for either incident.

Anyone with information on any of these homicides is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.