Suspected suicide in St Andrew, gun seized
Published:Friday | May 21, 2021 | 9:50 AM
The police in St Andrew are probing a suspected suicide on Lessing Avenue in Brook Valley.
The deceased has been identified as 59-year-old labourer Patrick Scott.
The police report that about 6:40 a.m. on Thursday, Scott was at home with a relative when he allegedly used a nine millimetre Sig Sauer pistol to shoot himself in the head.
The police were alerted and on their arrival, the body was seen in a room with a gunshot wound.
The scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue.
The firearm was subsequently seized.
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