CLARENDON, Jamaica – The estranged wife of a man killed in a shooting incident in Hayes, Clarendon on Tuesday night is remembering him as a kind-hearted and generous man who was well loved in the community.

Forty-year-old labourer Christopher Romany, otherwise called ‘Lucky’, was among two people killed after gunmen invaded a shop and opened fire on Romany and others playing dominoes. A 16-year-old boy also died in the incident which left five others nursing gunshot wounds.

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When OBSERVER ONLINE visited the community on Wednesday morning, Ingrid Cooper broke down in tears as she mourned the loss of her estranged husband.

“It ah guh break mi down. Even though we were apart for about five years now, when me and him did live him never mek mi hungry. Mi have other kids that don’t belong to him, and him never make them want anything, make sure that they went to school etc.

“Him miserable and him loud and cuss but he was a nice person who was well loved in the community,” Cooper said.

Senior Superintendent Glenford Miller, the commanding officer for the Clarendon Police Division, said intelligence work is being carried out on the ground to find out a motive for the shooting and unearth the perpetrators of the crime.