Cops probe if Sam Sharpe Square murder was contract killing

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May 08, 2018

Detectives attached to the St James Criminal Investigation Branch have theorised that the gun attack in which a female vendor was slain and two others injured in Sam Sharpe Square on the weekend was a contract killing, ordered from overseas.

Dead is 57-year-old Valda Kellier of an Upper King Street, Cantebury address.

According to the police, about 10 p.m. on Saturday, several explosions were heard in Sam Sharpe Square during the heavy rainfall, and the police were called.

"On our arrival, Ms Kellier and the other two persons were seen on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. Kellier was pronounced dead at hospital and the other two admitted in stable condition," the police said.

"Valda was a popular clothes vendor who sold on St James Street and Parade, but since the state of emergency, she decide to take a break from selling clothes and was only selling cigarettes at night-time," a vendor who was close to the deceased told the WESTERN STAR.

St James, which has been under a state of emergency since January, has seen 33 murders so far this year, a 67 per cent reduction when compared with the corresponding period last year.

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