Former nat’l footballer murdered in MoBay
Devon ‘Kid Harris’ Dunkley among four killed
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CITY of Montego Bay was thrown into mourning yesterday morning when residents woke up to the shocking news that beloved former national goalkeeper Devon ‘Kid Harris’ Dunkley was among four persons killed in a hail of bullets in the North Gully section of the western city.
According to reports, shortly after 10 p.m., armed men approached a shop, which Dunkley operated, and open fired on a group of persons who were in the shop watching football. This resulted in the deaths of three persons on the spot. A fourth person subsequently died in hospital.
“I was at the taxi stand listening to the news on my
car radio when I heard a barrage of gunshots and saw people running all over the place,” said a taxi man who fled in the direction of Sam Sharpe Square. “All when me reach inna Sam Sharpe Square, me still a hear shots.”
When the shooting subsided and the shooters fled the scene in a waiting motor car, it was discovered that the 57-year-old Dunkley; Raphael Wedderburn, 70; and a popular street person known as Gabriel were all
dead inside Dunkley’s shop. A fourth man, 54-year-old Percival Tapper, who also suffered multiple gunshot wounds, subsequently died in hospital.
Dunkley, who represented St Elizabeth Technical High School in daCosta Cup football in the 1970s and later represented Seba United in National Premier League football for more than 15 years, was a member of the club’s history-making 1986-87 team. It became first rural team to be crowned national champions.
The death of the popular former goalkeeper comes as a double blow to Seba United, who lost another former stalwart last week when Edwin ‘Magic’ Alcock, who himself was a former national player, collapsed in Montego Bay and died.