Popular Elderly Man Murdered in St Thomas

Jamaica Crime News, St Thomas: The Morant Bay police in the parish of St Thomas are now carrying out an investigation, surrounding the shooting death of a popular elderly community figure, who was murdered in his community on Tuesday morning, October 23.

The deceased has been identified as Nathaniel Cunningham otherwise called “Durango Kid”  84-year-old unemployed of Danver Pen, also in St Thomas.

Reports by the police are that about 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday,  Cunningham was at his home when he was ambushed by unknown assailants armed with handguns.

Cunningham was shot multiple times to his upper body.

The police were summoned and upon arrival the elderly man was discovered lying in a pool of blood.

He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead.