ST ANDREW, Jamaica – On Sunday morning, September 17, 2023, a lone gunman shot and killed a male vendor and injured a female in a brazen daylight attack in Cross Roads, St Andrew.

The police identified the deceased as Cavanah Lafayette, age 33, a late Pendic Road, Kingston 11 resident. 

 The injured woman, whose given age is 54, has been admitted to hospital.

According to reports, at about 8:55 a.m., Lafayette was at his stall when a man approached him and engaged him in a short conversation.

The man went back to his vehicle, returned with a firearm, and opened fire at Lafayette. Lafayette ran towards a woman, and the gunman kept firing–hitting both victims–Lafayette in the head and upper body and the woman in the buttocks.

The police rushed both victims to the hospital, where the authorities admitted the woman and pronounced Lafayette dead.

The police did not establish a motive for the killing.

The Cross Roads police are investigating.

20-year-old woman gunned down at home in St. Catherine.

Detectives assigned to the Linstead police station in St. Catherine have launched an inquiry into the shooting death of a female at her house on Saturday, September 16, 2023.

Police identified the deceased as Tamara Harrison Ferron, age 20, a self-employed resident of the Banbury 

District, Linstead, in St Catherine.

According to reports, at about 8:50 p.m., residents in the community heard several loud explosions coming from a house, and a man wearing dark clothing and a tam was seen running from the vicinity of the house.

Residents alerted the police. Upon their arrival, the police found the victim inside her kitchen with what appeared to be gunshot wounds all over her body.

Medical staff at the Linstead Community Hospital in St. Catherine pronounced her dead on arrival.

The police did not establish a motive for the killing.

Sherica Jackson completed a Diamond League sprint double in Eugene.

 KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s newly minted sprint darling and two-time 200m World Championships winner, Shericka Jackson, completed her first major sprint double when she won the Diamond League 200m on Sunday, September 17, 2023, setting a meet record of 21.57 seconds (0.3m/s) at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Sunday’s win came a day after she won the 100m in 10.70 seconds.

The ever-consistent Marie-Josee Ta Lou was second with her season’s best time of 22.10 seconds, and Anthonique Strachan of the Bahamas was third in 22.16 seconds.

Meanwhile, the underappreciated Natoya Goule-Toppin broke her Jamaican national record in the women’s 800m after she placed third in 1:55.96 seconds. 

Athing Mu, the bronze medallist at the World Championships in Budapest last month, ran an American national record, world-leading, and meet’s record of 1:54.97 seconds to win the event.

Keely Hodgkinson was second with a Great Britain national record of 1:55.19 seconds.