59-y-o contractor shot dead in St Thomas

ST THOMAS, Jamaica — Detectives assigned to the St Thomas Police Division are probing the circumstance surrounding the shooting death of a man and the injuring of another in the parish yesterday.

Dead is 59-year-old contractor Michael Santouse, otherwise called ‘Daddy Ruff’, of Bogle Avenue in Yallahs.

Reports from the Morant Bay police are that both men were standing along the roadway about 9:15 am when they were pounced upon by a lone gunman who opened fire hitting them.

Santouse was pronounced dead at hospital and the other man treated and released.