A teacher was shot and killed by unknown assailants along March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Friday afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as 35-year-old Roshane Beckford, otherwise called ‘Pancho’, a teacher at Ascot High School in Portmore, St Catherine.

Police reports are that about 3:15 p.m., Beckford received a telephone call indicating that a family member, said to be his mother, was ill and required his assistance.