Senior citizen killed during bar robbery
Saturday, 11 July 2009
A 65-year-old man was on Friday shot and killed in Bell Plain, Four Paths in Clarendon.
Dead is Vivian Simms of Barberry district, St. Elizabeth.
Police reports are that about 10:15 Friday night Mr. Simms was among a group at a bar when two men, one armed with a gun entered.
The men demanded money but when their demands were not met, one shot Mr. Simms while the other stabbed another male patron several times with a knife.
The men then escaped.
The police were alerted and the injured men taken to hospital where Mr. Simms died and the other admitted.
Saturday, 11 July 2009
A 65-year-old man was on Friday shot and killed in Bell Plain, Four Paths in Clarendon.
Dead is Vivian Simms of Barberry district, St. Elizabeth.
Police reports are that about 10:15 Friday night Mr. Simms was among a group at a bar when two men, one armed with a gun entered.
The men demanded money but when their demands were not met, one shot Mr. Simms while the other stabbed another male patron several times with a knife.
The men then escaped.
The police were alerted and the injured men taken to hospital where Mr. Simms died and the other admitted.
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