The woman has been identified as Hyacinth Whyte, a retiree of Tunbridge Drive, Kingston 19.
Reports from the Constant Spring police are that at about 9:50 am, men drove up in a motor vehicle and opened gunfire at Whyte’s house before setting it ablaze.
The police and units from the York Park Fire Department were alerted to conduct cooling-down operations.
Whyte’s charred remains were found among the rubble.
The scene was processed and the remains were removed to the morgue pending post-mortem.
