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Mentally-ill man found dead along MoBay's Hip Strip identified

Published:Wednesday | March 15, 2023 | 2:09 PM
The incident is still under investigation. - File photo.

The Montego Bay police in St James have now identified the man who is believed to be mentally ill whose body was found with chop wounds along a section of Jimmy Cliff Boulevard last Tuesday.

He is 22-year-old Rushane Bulgin, unemployed of Williamsfield community in the parish.

Reports from the Barnett Street police are that about 6:30 a.m. on the day in question a team was on patrol along a section of Jimmy Cliff Boulevard when cops stumbled upon the body of a man.

He was discovered lying in blood with what appeared to be multiple chop wounds.

- Hopeton Bucknor

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