The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

A 25-year-old man was stoned to death early Saturday morning in a shanty town off Gamble Heights, hours after a security officer was shot multiple times and killed off Shirley Street.

These homicides pushed the country’s murder count to 116 for the year, according to The Tribune’s records.

Officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit, Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle said police were called to the scene of the Gamble Heights homicide shortly after 8am on Saturday, after the body of man was discovered in bushes off Sunrise Road. Chief Supt Rolle said police believe the man was “stoned to death” after getting into an argument with several other men in the area around 4am on Saturday.

Police are questioning a 35-year-old man and an 18-year-old youth, both of Gamble Heights, about this murder.

“When officers arrived in the Gamble Heights community, we discovered the body of a man laying in the bushes with several huge stones around him,” Chief Supt Rolle said.

“The victim was suffering from multiple blunt injuries. EMS pronounced the individual dead on the scene. The information at this stage is still sketchy but we know that earlier in the morning, shortly before 4am, there were reports of a fight in the area and persons were attacking an individual with rocks. We are speaking to persons and in the process of figuring out what happened, but we are still early in the investigation.”

A few hours earlier, police were on the scene of another homicide, this time off Shirley Street.

Chief Supt Rolle said the victim, a 45-year-old security guard, was attacked and killed around midnight, as he was completing his shift.

“Police received a call of a shooting incident on Essex Street off Shirley Street. Responding officers arrived and discovered a 45-year-old man shot multiple times about the body. The individual is a security officer, he was posting relief for the company and had returned to headquarters when he was accosted by a person or persons who produced firearms and shot him multiple times to the body. He, in an effort to escape his assailants drove off a short distance where he crashed into a parked vehicle. Emergency service personnel arrived and after examining him pronounced him lifeless.”

Police have not identified the victim, but The Tribune understands he is Sidney Logan.

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.

Investigations continue.