Jamaica: Manchester female gunshot victim added to dramatic series of crimes
Following a dramatic sequence of crimes that started with the kidnapping of a taxi driver and his passenger in the parish capital last night, a Manchester woman is now hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
According to police, three men approached a taxi driver in Mandeville shortly before 8 p.m. and asked him to take them to May Day.
The driver already had one passenger and the three men boarded the white Toyota taxi, and the vehicle drove off.
During the journey, the three men reportedly pulled guns and directed the taxi operator to head towards Christiana.
The police say the three gunmen stopped in the community of Chudleigh, took out the driver and his passenger and tied them up in bushes.
One of the gunmen kept watching on the cabbie and his passenger while the other two left with the taxi.
Around 5 o'clock this morning, a butcher and a woman were travelling in his truck towards Christiana to buy cows when he noticed a white car travelling behind him along with Pen Hill.
It is reported that on reaching Walderston, the car overtook the truck, pulled over and signalled the truck driver to stop.
However, the truck driver did not stop.
That's when the white car gave chase, and its occupants opened fire at the truck, puncturing one of the tires.
The men subsequently overtook the truck and fired more shots into it, hitting a woman on her breast and arm before speeding away.
The butcher then drove to a nearby gas station and abandoned the truck before he and the injured woman ran into nearby bushes.
It is reported that the gunmen soon returned and stole the woman's handbag from the truck.
The gunmen then returned to the location where the taxi driver and his passenger had been detained, freed them, and returned the car.
The taxi driver and passenger drove straight to the Williamsfield police station to report the incident.
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