Police have released the name of another person of interest as they deepen the probe into the killing of 17-year-old Devenese Nelson of North Street, Kingston 14 on Sunday, June 26.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is to seek the death penalty against Rushane Barnett, the man accused of killing a mother and her four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon last week.

Three persons who are said to be from Jamaica, were found dead inside a home in Queens, New York on Friday.

Seven people were shot Friday evening in an area of Kingston known as Greenwich Park Road. One of the gunshot victims has since died.

Police sources say that the suspect in the murder of a mother and her four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon has reportedly confessed to the crime.

Investigators attached to the Major Investigation Division in Trelawny are probing the murder of two cousins along Peel Street in Falmouth early this morning.

Four people were shot, one fatally, in a drive-by on Red Hills Road in St Andrew on Tuesday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two men were shot dead and another injured by a gunman on Church Street in downtown Kingston this afternoon.

Police have identified the dead men as Dwayne Hall, 34, from Tower Street and Ladd Lane, Kingston, and Kirkland Damion Baker, 37, from Bayshore Park in Harbour View, St Andrew.

The injured man is 24 years old

A Manchester businessman was shot dead and his licensed firearm stolen by gunmen in the usually quiet community of Mile Gully in the parish's north east on Saturday morning (November 30).

He has been identified as 39-year-old Wayne Nash, a funeral home director.

Police reports are that shortly after 1:00 am Nash was at one of his business establishments, a bar, when armed men entered and proceeded to rob patrons. It is further reported that during the robbery, Nash was shot, and his licensed firearm stolen.

He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.