Senior citizen found stabbed to death on dirt track in St Thomas

Police in St Thomas are probing the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of a senior citizen who was found along a dirt track in the parish on Friday. 

The deceased has been identified as 69-year-old Oliver Brown, otherwise called ‘Mr Shine’, a watchman from Bambo River in the parish. 

Reports are that shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, a resident was walking along a dirt track in the community when Brown’s body was seen lying face down with multiple chop wounds.

An alarm was raised and the police were called to the scene.

No motive has yet been established for the killing.

This brings to six, the number of persons killed in the parish since the start of the year.

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