(CMR) A Jamaican national, David Hylton (51), who worked at Subway as a supervisor for many years was gunned down yesterday in Jamaica.
CMR sources indicate he worked at Anderson Square Subway in George Town.
According to the Jamaican Gleaner he was killed by a passenger in his taxi during his morning run.
A group of students from Ryne Park in St James witnessed the early morning attack and:
“were exposed to real terror yesterday morning when a man who was a passenger in the taxi in which they were travelling alighted from the vehicle, pulled a handgun, and executed the driver as they looked on in horror.”
Hylton was the second person to die by the gun in the parish in a 24-hour window as shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday, an unemployed resident of York Bush in Mount Carey was shot and killed by unknown assailants.
In the Ryne Park incident, which occurred at about 8 a.m. Hylton was reportedly doing his customary early morning transportation of persons from the community.
He picked up his alleged killer among his passengers. Along the way, the man asked for a stop, alighted from the vehicle, and handed the driver his fare.
While the driver was searching for money to make change for the man, he reportedly pulled a firearm, pointed it at the driver's head and opened fire.
He was later pronounced dead at the local hospital. Hylton had resided in the area for a number of years. The passenger had fled by the time police arrived.
The latest killings bring to 82 the number of persons murdered in St James, which has been under a state of public emergency since the start of the year.
One shocked Cayman resident remarked:
“Oh, I am so heart broken, poor David! What a genuinely nice person he was. I have known him for many years, every morning for years, I would call him at Subways (he was at the one in Industrial Park at that time) and I would run in and pick up my son’s sandwich to take to school. He always had it ready for me.
He had a little car rental thing here too, not licensed but he had purchased a couple of cars and was renting them, always working to better himself, so ambitious and kind, this is horrible and it sounds like a hit, does not sound like he was robbed? Terrible news, poor thing! Jamaica continues to go downhill…“
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