Southside mourns as Jamaican shot dead in Brooklyn

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Southside mourns as Jamaican shot dead in Brooklyn

Fleet Street and the community of Southside in central Kingston are mourning the tragic death of Tarcia ‘Tanney’ McLean-Lysius, who was shot in the head, reportedly by another woman, outside a party in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. McLean-Lysius...

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