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16-y-o shot dead in Kingston West |

A grief-stricken Jacqueline Dunkley says she is bewildered as to why her 16-year-old son, André Dixon, was brutally murdered by gunmen Friday night at the corner of Pechon and Beckford streets in downtown Kingston. André would have turned 17 later...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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