The shooting death of a man in Steer Town, St. Ann, has led the police to launch a probe into the situation to locate the assailants who committed this crime.
Dead is 48-year-old Barrington Black of Mammee Bay in the parish.
Reports are that at about 11 a.m., Black was standing along a roadway in a section of the Steer Town community when a Toyota motorcar with men aboard alighted and opened gunfire, hitting Black multiple times.
They then fled the scene.
Black was subsequently taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No motive for the killing has yet been established by investigators.