MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The head of a man who the Manchester Police listed as wanted for rape, burglary, assault at common law, and unlawful wounding was found in a shopping bag at Whitney Turn near the Manchester/ Clarendon border on Thursday morning, July 6, 2023.

A senior police source identified the head as that of Rohan “Black Seed” Barrett, a resident of Porus in Manchester.

According to preliminary reports, on Thursday, July 6, 2023, at about 6:30 am, an unknown resident discovered Barrett’s head in a shopping bag at a fruit stall along the Whitney Turn main road near the intersection with Mount Pleasant Road.

Heyward McLean, the fruit stall owner, thinks the assailant left the severed head at the fruit stall because he wants somebody to find it quickly.

“When I got the call, I came down here and saw the police draw long yellow tape and said I cannot open the shop until they finish as it is a crime scene,” McLean told OBSERVER ONLINE as he described the deceased as a “troublemaker.”

“The head was in a brown shopping bag similar to the ones you carry to the supermarket. They carry it come put down in front of the stall for somebody to see it.”

Persons unknown gunned down two suspected goat thieves in St James.

The St James police department reported that residents in the Adelphi community found the body of two unidentified men who were shot to death by unknown assailants at Corner Road in Content, Adelphi, St James, on Thursday morning, July 6, 2023.

The police are yet to identify the men but gave their descriptions: According to the police, one of the men is of dark brown complexion, medium built, about 6 feet, in his early 40s, low cut hairstyle, and dressed in a black T-shirt marked and grey cut jeans.

The other is of dark complexion, about 5′ 9, medium build, in his early 20s, sported a cornrow hairstyle and dressed in black shorts and a black T-shirt.

According to the police report, on July 6, 2023, at about 4:00 am, residents in the Adelphi community heard loud explosions like gunshots. Around 6 am, they stumbled upon the bodies of the two men and alerted the police.

Upon arrival, the police found the body of one man lying on his back along the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

The police found the other man slumped over the steering wheel of a black Toyota Noah in bushes on the side of the road with multiple gunshot wounds all over his body.

The police said the Noah bus had what appeared to be a bullet hole in the front windscreen. There were damages to the driver door, right fender, right headlamp, front bumper, right front wheel, right back wheel, and right side door.

The police found a goat between seats in the back of the Noah.

The police are investigating.