KEVAUGHN McKenzie Gunned down on the job in Kingston, Jamaica

BY RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com  Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Marcia Sinclair (right) consoles a relative at a Texaco
 gas station on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew yesterday
afternoon, as they mourned the death of her grandson
 Kevaughn Sinclair. (Photo: Milton Carr)

KEVAUGHN McKenzie was never late for work.

After four months on the job, the 19-year-old gas pump attendant had earned the reputation of being a reliable member of the team at Texaco's Constant Spring Road service station.

Yesterday morning, about 11:40 McKenzie was attending to a customer when a gunman pointed a firearm at him. He tried to run, but was shot several times in the upper body.

According to the constabulary's Corporate Communications Unit, McKenzie's attacker fled the scene on a waiting motorcycle.

The Jamaica Observer was told that McKenzie, who lived in the tough Grants Pen community, began working at the gas station last October.

When the Observer visited the petrol station yesterday, McKenzie's relatives — more