THE SHOT FLY THROUGH: Gunmen Shoots-up House With 2-Y/O Inside

The St Catherine North police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a double shooting, in which a toddler was among the victims, in the Above Rocks community, in the parish, yesterday.

The incident occurred about 2 p.m. Its understood that the two-year-old child and an adult were at home when  gunmen fired several shots inside their home, located in Barnett district in Above Rocks.

“The child got shot in his foot,” a representative from the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) told The Gleaner.

A suspect has reportedly been detained and an illegal firearm seized following a probe by the police.

The toddler and a 25-year-old victim are reportedly being treated at hospital.

"The shot fly through... the baby lucky. Mi glad it never worse," one resident lamented.


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