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Violence has been rocking Rose Town over the holidays.
A bereaved Rose Town family is living in fear as they grieve the murder of their loved one as the alleged killer has reportedly threatened to kill all the remaining males in that household.
Twenty-year-old Romain Atkinson was killed in front of his family members on Christmas Day, starting what has been days of terror for relatives.
“Everybody just a try ’cause we still under threat from the same gunman weh kill him. The same gunman that kill him send threat to we that him ago burn we out and him ago kill out all man in a di family,” a relative told
The parish that recorded the largest decline is the St. James Police Division.
The tourism capital recorded 143 murders in 2019 whilst this year it recorded only 115 such cases.
Still, the St. James’s Police Division remains one of the top parishes as it relates to cases in homicide.
St Andrew South and St Catherine North tops the list in homicide cases tallying at 137 and 122 respectively.
The Western Kingston Police Division records an increase in homicide cases weighing in with 57, which is the highest increase this year, bringing their tally to 92.
Portland, records 10 murders, keeping them as the Parish that is the least affected by homicides.