'Dingo' charged with murder
Published:Saturday | April 26, 2025 | 2:54 PM
Twenty-six-year-old Vivian Campbell, otherwise called ‘Dingo’, of New Bowens, Clarendon, has been charged with murder, unauthorised possession of prohibited weapon, unauthorised possession of ammunition and using a firearm to commit a felony following the killing of a man on April 16.
The deceased is 35-year-old Richard Mitchell, otherwise called ‘Brown man’, a labourer of Poinciana drive New Bowens, Clarendon.
The May Pen police are that at about 8:10 p.m., Mitchell was seated in a motor car at a business establishment on New Bowens main road when he was allegedly approached by Campbell and another man.
The men reportedly opened gunfire hitting Mitchell to the upper body.
The police were summoned and Mitchell was assisted to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
On Tuesday, April 22 Campbell turned himself in to the police and was formerly charged.
His court date is being finalised.
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