Jamaica: Three men murdered, two women injured in Westmoreland gun attack

(Jamaica Observer) Police are currently piecing together clues in a deadly gun attack in Williamsfield, Westmoreland last night.

The constabulary’s Corporate Communication Unit (CCU) informed that three men were killed in the 11:15 pm incident while two women are currently nursing gunshot wounds.

They are 34-year-old Corey Parkins of Cascade, Hanover, 23-year-old Coran Birch of Woodsville, Hanover and 21-year-old Jahmar Warren of Grange district in Westmoreland.

According to the police, the men were among patrons at a bar located at a plaza in the parish when four armed men alighted from a Toyota Voxy motor vehicle, entered the premises and opened gunfire hitting them and the two women.

They were taken to hospital where Parkins, Birch and Warren were pronounced dead and the women admitted.

The lawmen are now appealing to anyone with information that can assist in their investigations to contact the Whithorn police at 876-957-7713, police 119 emergency number, Crime Stop at 311 or the nearest police station.