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Man killed at funeral service in Quarry, St James

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 4:17 PMBy Hopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer -

The St. James police have commenced a probe into the shooting death of a man near a funeral service in the community of Quarry on Saturday.

The deceased has been identified as 30-year-old Shomari Sterling, unemployed of Fellman Corner, also in St James.

Reports are that at about noon, Sterling was standing at a location where a funeral service was being held in the Quarry district when he was attacked by armed men and shot several times.

The police were summoned, and upon arrival, Sterling was discovered lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds.

The scene was processed, and the body removed to the morgue.

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