DOUBLE Murder In Mt. Hope — Brothers Shot Dead, Cousin Critically Wounded
Two (2) brothers are dead and their cousin critically wounded following a brazen shooting incident in Mt. Hope on Tuesday afternoon (7th October, 2025), in what has been described as an ongoing community feud. The deceased have been identified as 15-year-old Jovel Paul and his brother, 23-year-old Rodney Slater, both of Mt. Hope Road Extension, Mt. Hope. Their wounded cousin has been identified as Coby Best.
According to reports, Paul and his brother, Slater, were liming under a shed with their cousin, along Mt. Hope Road Extension, metres from their home, around 1:30 PM, when gunmen with high-powered weapons emerged from some tall bushes at a nearby hill. The men opened fire on the group, hitting the brothers and their cousin multiple times, before escaping by running up the hill.
Police and Emergency Health Services were notified and responded to the scene. However, Paul and Slater succumbed to their injuries while their cousin remains in a critical condition at the Hospital.
Crime scene investigators recovered several spent shells.
Pictured Above: The shed where the brothers were fatally shot.
Speaking with Newsday, Paul and Slater’s grieving mother, who did not want to be named, said some of the young men in the area were being threatened by residents from a nearby community.“We fed up make reports [to Police]. We fed up. Nothing is being done,” she said. “I can't function right now on. I just being calm because is God giving me the patience.”
Residents, meanwhile, said the shooting has left them very uneasy, adding that the feud has been ongoing and they are not sure what started it in the first place.
Investigations are continuing.
More on this as it becomes available.
[Source: Newsday]
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