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Police hunt driver in fatal Portmore hit-and-run

Published:Sunday | October 26, 2025 | 11:04 AM
A motive has not been established.
A motive has not been established.
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The St Catherine South police are searching for the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash on Sunday that claimed the life of an 80-year-old man.

The deceased has been identified as Roy Pickersgill of Edgewater, Portmore.

Reports are that about 3:50 a.m., Pickersgill was riding a bicycle along George Lee Boulevard, near the Portmore Town Centre, when he was hit by a motor vehicle.

The driver did not stop.

Pickersgill was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

- Rasbert Turner

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