UPDATE: New Lincoln triple murder victims identified
KINGSTON, Jamaican— Police have identified the individuals who were killed in a triple murder on New Lincoln Avenue in St Andrew on Friday.
Dead are 55-year-old Randolph McBean and 41-year-old Donville Charlton, both of Lincoln Crescent, Kingston 5; and 38-year-old Barrington Phillips, a contractor of Berwick Road, Kingston 13.
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Reports from the Major Investigations Division, are that about 7:21 pm, McBean, Charlton, Phillips and another man were among a group of people purchasing meals at a cook shop when they were pounced upon by gunmen travelling in a Mazda motor car who opened fire hitting them.
The police were alerted and the victims were taken to hospital where McBean, Charlton and Phillips were pronounced dead and the other man admitted for treatment.
Police have commenced an investigation into the incident.