A Taran tactical combat master hand gun is displayed for sale, June 23, 2022, in Hempstead, New York. A sweeping new gun law in New York that would require applicants to hand over social media information before they could carry a gun in public while declaring bucolic parks, bustling Times Square and a long list of other places off limits for firearms is scheduled to take effect on Thursday, September 1, 2022, amid legal battles and lingering confusion. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
July 10, 2023
Shopkeeper shot and killed in St James
ST JAMES, Jamaica – The Montego Bay police are probing the death of 59-year-old Veral Phylinar, a shopkeeper of Cedar Hill, Somerton St James, who was shot and killed on Sunday, July 9.
Reports are that about 7:00 am, residents heard explosions and summoned the police. During a check by a police team Phylinar was seen clad in a white merino and blue jeans pants lying face down in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds to the head and upper body.
He was transported to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Investigation continues.
