The Police reported that the daughter of popular PNP activist and aspiring councilor for the Admiral Town Division, Louise ‘Pumbles’ Newland, was shot and killed by armed thugs Sunday night, October 1, 2023, in downtown Kingston.
Dead is Anique Walters, age 31, security supervisor of a Benbow Street address, Kingston.
According to unconfirmed reports, at about 10:45 p.m., Sunday night, Walters and a man pulled up in a Black motor on Orange Street near Orange Villa. Minutes later, armed thugs opened fire on the couple, hitting Walters in the upper body and the unidentified man in the leg.
The authorities at the Kingston Public Hospital pronounced Walters dead and admitted the man for treatment. The man remains in hospital.
Law enforcement officers have taken a suspect into custody but said it was too early to establish a clear motive for the killing.
However, based on preliminary reports, some people believe the shooting was gang-related because of the feud between the Upsetter and the Superstar gangs.
CIB detectives probe double murders in St Catherine and Kingston.
Police in Kingston and St. Catherine responded to two separate scenes of double murders on Monday morning, October 2, 2023.
In Kingston, Police responded to a scene along Spanish Town Road where the bodies of two women were found, lying on the side of the road and the other in a car with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to reporting, the bodies were found near the entrance of a facility operated by the National Solid Waste Management Authority.
Authorities believe at least one of the women works for the National Solid Waste Management Authority.
Details of the double murder are unclear. But, the authorities theorized the shootings may have taken place about 5:00 a.m. as that is the usual time employees arrive for work.
In St. Catherine, law enforcement officers responded to a murder scene in McCooks Pen, where the bodies of a male and a female were found with gunshot wounds.
At about 3:00 a.m., Monday morning, residents reportedly heard several explosions. Four hours later, residents found the bodies in the bushy terrain of the community and alerted the Police.