Body of man found in bed with gunshot wounds
A family is searching for answers after their 47-year-old sibling Rhaman Dobson was found murdered in his bed in Jackson Town, Trelawny, last Thursday morning.
According to family members who spoke with the Jamaica Observer on Monday, Dobson, a farmer and itinerant chef, had made plans to meet with friends on the day he was killed. When he failed to show, his proactive peers, troubled that he had neither showed nor answered their calls, visited his home and made a gruesome find.
“They found him in his bed. Three bullets — he got one to his eye and one to his shoulder,” one sibling told the Observer from overseas while expressing her bewilderment as to who could mean her brother that much harm.
“We don’t know him to be involved in anything; we are not sure if it was a case of mistaken identity,” she told the Observer, noting that it did not seem to be a robbery as nothing appeared to have been taken from the home, including a backpack that contained an undisclosed sum of money.
Another sibling of Dobson told the Observer that upon visiting the home in the aftermath of the murder, there was nothing to indicate he had struggled with his attacker/s before he was shot dead.
According to the grieving sibling, she last spoke with Dobson on Wednesday morning, after he had spent Tuesday at her home, unaware that it would be the last time she would see her brother who was one of nine siblings alive.
“I last spoke with him on Wednesday morning at 8:30 when I dropped him off to get a bus back to Trelawny — because he spent Tuesday evening by my house in St Ann — and he said, ‘Later, sis,’ ” she told the Observer. She said the family is yet to receive any updates from the Clark’s Town police, who are investigating.
Head of the Trelawny Police Division Superintendent Winston Milton told the Observer that the sleuths were still doing their investigations. He said while they have not yet uncovered any suspect/s, a person of interest has been identified. He, however, refrained from disclosing the individual’s identity given the stage of the investigation.
