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April 27, 2015
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Shopkeeper killed in Thompson Town, Clarendon

Horace Fisher, Star Writer

Up to late last night, police had not held any suspect in connection with Saturday night's shooting death of a 36-year-old shopkeeper in Thompson Town, Clarendon.

The police reported that Pauline Johnson was heading home in Wesleyan, Thompson Town, after closing her shop sometime after 9 p.m., when she was attacked, robbed of an undetermined sum of money and shot several times.

"Obviously, the killers were waiting for her, they know her routine, so they ambushed the woman, robbed and killed her," an investigator told THE STAR.

A high ranking police officer from the Clarendon Division headquarters in May Pen revealed that the murder and other high-profile killings have raised the division 2015 murder rate to 37, 12 more homicides than what occurred up to the same period last year.

The officer asserted that while the police have so far made significant headway as it relates to other major crimes, shooting and murder continue to bedevil the division's best efforts.

Johnson's death is the latest in a number of murders to have hit the parish over the last two weeks. A little over a week ago, three young boys and a man were shot dead, execution style, in the Monymusk Housing Scheme near Lionel Town.

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