19-y-o charged with Kidd Lane triple murder

A 19-year-old man has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with last Friday’s deadly attack on Kidd Lane, off Spanish Town Road in St Andrew, which claimed the lives of two women and a one-year-old boy.

The accused, Dante Davis, who has addresses on Spanish Town Road and Kidd Lane in Kingston 13, is also facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, arson, conspiracy to commit arson, possession of a prohibited weapon, unauthorised possession of ammunition and using a firearm to commit a felony.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) announced the charges yesterday, crediting detectives from the Homicide Investigation Division and the St Andrew South Criminal Investigations Branch with the swift action that led to Davis being arrested and charged.