Body of labourer discovered with gunshot wounds in Portmore

The Portmore police in St Catherine have launched an investigation into the death of a man whose body was discovered in the parish yesterday.

Dead is Renaldo Coates, 30, a labourer of Clifton in Greater Portmore in the parish.

Reports are that about 7:15 a.m., passersby stumbled upon Coates' body at Ham Stables Farm.

The police were summoned and the body was found in a pool of blood with what appeared to be gunshot wounds.

He was later pronounced dead at the Spanish Town Public Hospital.

The Portmore Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the matter.

- Rasbert Turner

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