Cops investigate taxi operator’s murder

Investigators from the St. Andrew North Police Division are still trying to determine the motive for last night’s killing of an illegal taxi operator in Kingston 3.



The police say 42 year old Christopher Hawthorne was stabbed to death on Dukharan Avenue shortly after 10 p.m.



Deputy Superintendent of police Altemorth Campbell says information received so far indicates that Hawthorne was transporting two male passengers who stabbed him while he was driving.



DSP Campbell says the vehicle then crashed into a wall and the attackers escaped.