The bodies of a businessman and a suspected robber were discovered in the Glencoe Housing Scheme in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, on Sunday evening, prompting a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

The deceased have been identified as 65-year-old businessman and licensed firearm holder Melvin Blythe, otherwise called ‘Tuta’, of Beadles Drive, Santa Cruz, and Romel ‘Cow Man’ Johnson.

According to the police, Blythe was last seen alive at his business establishment on Saturday.