Update | Man arrested in connection with murder of Khanice Jackson

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Update | Man arrested in connection with murder of Khanice Jackson

A man listed as a person of interest in the death of accounting clerk 20-year-old Khanice Jackson is in police custody. The police say he was picked up in the Half-Way-Tree area in St Andrew this afternoon. He’s to undergo questioning....

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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