Imani Green Jamaica killing: 'Happy girl', eight, shot dead

[Bezant]

"An eight-year-old girl from south London shot dead when a gunman opened fire in a shop in Jamaica was a “happy, playful and popular” pupil, her head teacher has said.

Imani Green was inside her cousin’s shop in the rural north coast town of Duncans on Friday when a man entered the store and an argument broke out.

Police said the man then opened fire, shooting at people inside.

Imani, from Balham, was hit and died later in hospital."

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"The BBC’s Nick Davis in Kingston said said Duncans was seen as a “sleepy town and a backwater” where “crime is pretty much unheard of”.

The area recorded the second lowest figure for murder in Jamaica last year, he added.

Police said there were a number of lines of inquiry but one theory was that the shooting was in reprisal for an earlier gun attack.

Jamaica’s security minister Peter Bunting said he thought the shooting was connected to a lottery scam where Americans are duped into sending money to Jamaica in order to claim lottery winnings.

He told Channel 4 News: “The initial report that I received from the police suggested that this shooting is a reprisal for an earlier shooting a few months ago. The motive for [the earlier shooting] was a lottery scam-related dispute”.

He added that more than 500 murders over the past five years were connected to lottery scams, which can reap millions of dollars for criminals."

(bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21002359)

 

[BroomWagon]

Jamaica and so I heard Puerto Rico too have real high murder rates.

I’ve known this for a long time about Jamaica. The poor people. Jamaica of course, gave us reggae music and a number of those involved in that music have had such a sad ending. Poverty.