St Elizabeth teen charged in fatal machete attack as courts handle ganja, fugitive and hit-and-run cases

A 19-year-old from Stevenson Town, St Elizabeth, has been charged with murder and wounding after a violent dispute at a family home early Saturday, police said.

Lorenzo Williams is accused of killing his 21-year-old brother, Travis Williams, and injuring his 43-year-old mother and a 14-year-old brother. Officers said an argument broke out shortly after 12:30 a.m. and Williams allegedly used a machete, inflicting multiple chop wounds. Travis Williams was pronounced dead at hospital. Citizens detained Lorenzo Williams at the scene and handed him over to police.

The Department of Correctional Services has suspended visitor food deliveries to inmates at the South Camp Adult Correctional Center, effective immediately. In a Tuesday statement, the agency said, "The suspension will remain in place until further notice," without giving a reason. It asked inmates, families and visitors for cooperation and said further updates would follow.

District constable Shammar Williams was granted $300,000 bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Monday on charges of ganja possession, ganja dealing and introducing prohibited items into a correctional facility. Attorney-at-law Donna-Gaye Martin applied before Parish Court Judge Peter Wilson. Williams is to return on October 9, 2026. Police allege that on June 8, 2026, he was searched at Horizon Correctional Centre and ganja was found on him.

St Catherine resident Dean Dawson was convicted Tuesday of harbouring fugitive Glendon Bull Amos, who was wanted for murder and shootings. Dawson received an 18-month sentence but was released because he had already spent 18 months in custody. Senior Parish Court Judge Desiree Allene told him, "Mr. Dawson, you are found guilty. However, you have spent 18 months in custody and the court has sentenced you to 18 months imprisonment. So, you are sentenced to time served." His attorney, Tedison Jackson, said Dawson accepted the verdict, adding, "I would have felt more justified if he was acquitted, but he seems all right with the verdict." Dawson was arrested on January 29, 2025, after police pursued his Toyota Isis along the St Catherine leg of Highway 2000 to Maneg Estate, where Amos was found with him.

Proceedings against Conroy Cole, charged with vehicular manslaughter in the death of 11-year-old Doran McKenzie of Ferry District, St Catherine, were postponed Tuesday after investigators said two witnesses could not be located. McKenzie, a Jews Avenue Primary and Infant School student, was allegedly struck by a Ford Transit truck Cole was driving on June 10, 2025, after leaving a bus in Ferry; Cole was later arrested in Red Hills, St Andrew. The matter returns to the St Catherine Parish Court on July 29.

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang told the 11th biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay on Tuesday that reports Jamaica might accept up to 10,000 United States deportees were false. He said talks concern a third-country nationals arrangement, with no more than 25 such individuals in Jamaica at any time and fewer than 50 per fortnight, coordinated with the International Organization for Migration for onward return to home countries. Chang said the measure is a transitional memorandum of understanding, not a binding agreement, that US costs would be covered, and that persons with criminal records would not be accepted.