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Two shot and killed in St Elizabeth

By ANALEE BERNARD, Star Writer

BLACK RIVER

TWO MEN WERE shot dead at Mitcham district in Goshen, St. Elizabeth, on Saturday night.

Police say a group of men were at a shop playing dominoes, when a dark colour car drove pass the shop, turn around and stop a short distance away. Two men alighted and walked towards the shop carrying hand guns which they used to fire on the group of men.

Three men were hit, two died on the spot. The dead men are Fitzroy 'Stullu' Edwards, 19, from St. Catherine and Paul Sherman, 27, of Micham district in the parish.

The other man, a 26-year-old who is in hospital, is also from St. Catherine. He was shot in his upper body and is in serious but stable condition. No motive has been established for the shooting.