Gang war over extortion racket claims lives in Spanish Town

ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – Rival factions engaged in a bloody gang war over the lucrative extortion racket in Spanish Town, St Catherine over the weekend.

The police’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) confirmed that two persons were killed in different incidents, but that there were four murders in total in the parish.

The CCU confirmed the names of two individuals, one of whom was Bradley Orr who was killed on Young Street on Saturday. Another man, 25 year-old Adrian Boothe, was killed by unknown attackers on March Pen Road about 1:24 pm on Sunday.

“Boothe’s death was a stabbing murder, we don’t have the details and we don’t know if it was a reprisal for another murder, but we have reports of four persons killed in different incidents in Catherine,” a CCU representative said.

There are also unconfirmed reports that a man’s body was found in the vicinity of Distinction College at the corner of Nugent and Wellington Street in the old capital.