Shooting kills man in Shady Grove, US court jails lottery fraudster Carti

A St Catherine homicide probe began after midday gunfire erupted in Shady Grove on Friday morning, leaving a male gunshot casualty dead once he reached hospital and a female patient still undergoing treatment.

Police said North Division detectives were chasing whoever opened fire shortly before noon on paired victims spotted with bullet injuries on first inspection.

Separately at the parish level, judicial officers sent a chopping suspect for psychiatric vetting ahead of detention through 23 June at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre.

Counsel told the courtroom the man, 29 and from Brownstone, lives with recognised mental-health issues; prosecutors say that on the afternoon of 8 May—about twelve minutes past noon—a 46-year-old neighbour sealing his house confronted the intruder waving a blade and sustained a vicious cut to his left palm.

In United States sentencing news, Tacoma’s federal courthouse confirmed that Jamaican national Rashard Andrew Carti, 34, must serve three years after admitting he ran a lottery swindle that stripped a 73-year-old southwest Washington retiree of more than six hundred thousand United States dollars.

Prosecutors explained Friday that from 2020 he masqueraded as a publishing-house staffer saying she had won twenty-two million dollars yet had to wire taxes and handling charges, even warning her the Federal Bureau of Investigation was supposedly eavesdropping so she should stay silent.

Between August 2020 and February 2024 the woman parcelled cash through American couriers—sometimes via FedEx—until agents jailed Carti locally on 21 August 2025, extradited him for an October arraignment in the Western District of Washington, and recorded his guilty plea this February 2026.

Charging papers describe relentless calls and texts, staged tow-truck and pizza ruses, and pressure to liquidate property; Federal Bureau of Investigation Seattle leader Mike Harrington branded the conduct cruel manipulation that stripped a senior of life savings.

St Thomas police command pledged beefed-up proactive operations after seven homicides year-to-date versus six last year, with Deputy Superintendent Rowan Richie stressing blended social and tactical responses and urging residents to adopt basic security cameras because most break-ins hit empty dwellings.

During Thursday’s St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation session, Black River mayor Richard Solomon warned Hurricane Melissa left the majority of parish emergency shelters unusable heading into this season and said officials still lack a hardened command facility, so communities must scout alternative sites cooperatively.

Health educators meanwhile highlighted how sickle cell disease strains learning from toddler years onward, urging classroom flexibility—leg elevation, hydration, toilet access, moderated exercise—to ease pain crises, counter stigma tied to appearance, and arrange neuro-psych testing when grades suddenly slip, noting both overt and silent strokes occur; organisers route families to Jamaica’s sickle-cell helpline at 876-927-2471 for support.