THE ISLAND'S MURDER rate is quickly approaching the three-a-day mark. With four days gone in 2004, 10 murders have been committed, four of them occurring last weekend.
On Saturday night, Derron Grey, 37, was killed during a dispute with his brother Junior. Both Greys lived in Grosmond district, Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth.
On the same night, Patrick 'Apache' Nohar, of Oakdene Road, Kingston 11, was shot dead by gunmen at his home. Earlier in the day, the body of Kenneth 'Kenny' Mittoo, of Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11 was found with stab wounds inside his home.
Wayne Parchment of Braeton Newtown, Portmore, St. Catherine died at the Kingston Public Hospital. He was stabbed on Friday, during an argument with another man in Braeton. The police are seeking Kevin Burnside, 22, whom they believe can assist in their investigations.
Gunshot wounds
On New Year's Day, the body of Mark Grant was found with gunshot wounds at a tenement yard on Orange Street, in downtown Kingston. Also on New Year's Day, the body of 41-year-old William McClymont was found in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds, lying beside a Toyota motor car, on the Shawfield main road in Falmouth, Trelawny. The police believe the car was being used as an illegal taxi.
Linval Powell, 34, of William Street in Montego Bay, St. James was chopped to death on Friday by a man who attacked him with a machete. Also on Friday the first double murder for the year occurred when a 38-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter were killed in St. Ann.
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