Jamaica accountant killed trying to rescue daughter from armed men

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bogue Heights community on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was plunged into mourning on Wednesday afternoon when a popular accountant was shot and killed by armed men when he made a valiant attempt to stop them from abducting his daughter.

The dead man has been identified as 57-year-old Steven McPherson, of the upscale Bogue Heights community, which offers an elevated view of the western city.

According to reports, shortly after 4:30 p.m, McPherson’s 23-year-old daughter exited a taxi in the community and was walking home when men travelling in a Voxy bus and a Toyota motor car pulled up alongside her. The men began making sexual advances at her but she ignored them and kept on walking.

However, as she was approaching her house, the men used both vehicles to block her path. They alighted from their vehicles with guns and demanded that she enter one of the vehicles or she would be killed.

As he approached his home, the accountant realised that his daughter was being harassed and was crying. He drove his vehicle towards the men in an apparent bid to rescue his daughter. However, before he was able to exit his vehicle, one of the men opened gunfire, hitting him in the face.

McPherson lost control of the vehicle, which crashed through his neighbour’s fence. During the commotion, his daughter managed to escape while her attackers jumped back into their vehicles and sped away. When the police arrived at the location, they found McPherson slumped over the steering wheel of the crashed motor car with multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.