LUCEA, Hanover BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter Thursday, June 11, 2015
THE Hanover police have taken one man into custody in connection with the brutal slaying of a 14-year-old Rhodes Hall High School male student and his brother during a pre-dawn attack at their home in Lucea on Tuesday.
Investigators have linked the murders to the multi-million-dollar lottery scam targeting United States citizens, most of them elderly.
The deceased have been identified as Leon Grant, 14, and 20-year-old unemployed Travis 'Shane' McKenzie, both of Malcolm Drive, Lucea.
Their 24-year-old sister and stepfather have being treated for gunshot wounds sustained during the incident.
The double murder brought to 14 the number of homicides recorded by the Hanover police since the start of the year -- one shy of the 15 reported during the corresponding period in 2014.
The episode occurred about 2:00am Tuesday, after masked men kicked open the front door to the home and started shooting.
The schoolboy was hauled outside the house and shot execution style, even as his mother hurled a hammer at his killers, a police source told the Jamaica Observer West.
This led the detectives to surmise that McKenzie may have been the target of the attack because the shooters did not attempt to harm his mother when she went to her son's assistance.
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| The 14-year-old Rhodes Hall High student who was killed. |
Investigators later removed spent shells, fired from AK-47 and M-16 rifles, .9mm and .45 pistols, from the scene.
Gunshot holes that dotted the front section of the wooden structure served as a vivid reminder of the episode.
An incident on Labour Day in which a car belonging to a family member was shot up foreshadowed Tuesday's attack.
When the Observer West visited the Rhodes Hall High School, traumatised staff members and students were fighting to come to grips with the tragedy.
Principal Loreen Aljoe said the slain teen possessed leadership qualities. more
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