ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – A man is dead, and four people are hospitalized following a collision and shooting on the North-South Highway on Sunday, February 19,2023.
At about 5:40 pm, five persons were traveling in a Nissan Sylphy motor car from an event in St Ann. On reaching a section of Ocho Rios, three vehicles intercepted the Nissan, and occupants opened gunfire before escaping.
The driver of the Nissan was injured in the shooting. But he left the scene to get medical attention but lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a ravine near Caymanas Gardens in St Catherine.
Somebody contacted the police, and the police assisted the car’s occupants to the hospital, where they got admitted. But, unfortunately, a man only known as ‘Dada’ of a Greenwich Farm, Kingston 13 address, succumbed to his injuries.