Westmoreland man charged with murder, wounding with intent

Thirty-two-year-old Jeffery Ramdass, a farmer of Paul Island, Grange Hill, Westmoreland was charged on Thursday, June 11 with murder, wounding with intent and illegal possession of firearm.

Dead is 30-year-old Cordel Cazely of Paul Island, Grange Hill in the parish.

Reports from the Little London Police are that about 4:00 p.m., on Sunday, March 8, there was an altercation involving Ramdass and two men at a bar in Little London in the parish.

It is alleged that Ramdass opened gunfire hitting Cazely and another man before escaping. The police were summoned and both men taken to hospital were Cazely was pronounced dead and the other man treated and released.

Ramdass was  later arrested.

His court date is being finalised. 

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