KINGSTON, Jamaica — A bearer employed at a popular financial institution was shot dead during an attempted robbery on a section of Half- Way Tree Road, St Andrew, on Friday afternoon.

The dead man, identified as 68-year-old Lawrence Kessna from Phase 2, Seaview Gardens in St Andrew, was killed following a tussle with a wannabe thief.

While expressing condolences to the family, friends and the business community affected by the killing, head of the Area Four police, Assistant Commissioner Michael Phipps, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force strongly condemns the brazen act of violence.