PNP councillor injured in Portmore gun attack
Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 11:05 AM
People's National Party Councillor for the Southboro Division in St Catherine East Central Ainsley Parkins was injured in a gun attack this morning.
This was confirmed by acting head of the St Catherine South police Superintendent Hopton Nicholson.
Nicholson said he could not speak to Parkins' condition.
He said the politician has been transported to the Spanish Town Hospital.
It is reported that Parkins was doing political work in his division when he was ambushed by a group of men.
He was reportedly sitting in his vehicle on Newland Road, which is located in Portmore, when men came from behind a wall and opened fire, hitting him multiple times in the head and upper body.
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