A 33-year-old labourer from St Ann has been charged with murder and several firearm-related offences in connection with a gun attack on a couple travelling along a roadway in Lluidas Vale, St Catherine earlier this month that left a man dead and his female companion injured.

Charged is Jamie Stephenson, otherwise called ‘Tutu,’ of Mansfield Heights in Ocho Rios.

Stephenson faces charges of murder, wounding with intent, possession of a prohibited weapon, unauthorised possession of ammunition, and using a firearm to commit a felony following the incident on Friday, May 15.