BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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CLASSES at St Anne's Primary School in downtown Kingston were disrupted yesterday after thugs chased and shot a man dead in a daylight attack outside the school on Bond Street, near the North Street intersection.
Police report that about 11:30 am, the man -- identified as Oniel Carnegie otherwise called 'Iron Man' -- was walking along the roadway when a car with several armed men aboard drove up.
"The car just come up and some man run out and start run down the man and a fire shot," a woman at the scene said.
The victim, in a desperate bid to escape, ran into a nearby shop to seek refuge, but was cornered and peppered with bullets.
A woman who was close by was also shot and injured during the attack that brought activity in the area to a halt.
The gunmen, in their bid to leave, ran into a team of police on patrol in the area, resulting in an exchange of gunfire that sent people scampering. No one was hit in that exchange.
Inside St Anne's, teachers did their best to keep young students calm, however, several parents who gathered outside the school had signs of worry on their faces as they spoke in hushed tones among themselves about the incident.
Yesterday police linked the killing to a series of attacks carried out by criminal gangs in the area.
Head of the Kingston Western Police Division, Senior Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford, however, assured residents that the authorities will be working "around the clock" to ensure that order is maintained.
Meanwhile, yesterday the police disclosed that they were hot on the trails of men behind two shooting incidents in West Kingston that left five people injured last week. more
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