Female taxi operator shot dead in St James
Tamara Higgins Detectives assigned to the St James Police Division are probing the murder of a female taxi operator who was gunned down on the job Tuesday evening. The dead woman has been identified as Tamara Higgins, who was of a Spring Mount, St James address. Reports are that shortly after 6pm, Higgins was plying the Montego Bay to Spring Mount route in the western Jamaica parish when she stopped to let off a passenger along the Tucker main road. She was pounced upon and shot multiple times by a gunman who exited the vehicle. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.