WESTERN BUREAU:

Up to late yesterday, police were still searching for a man who attacked and hacked another to death in Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday.

Dead is 22-year-old Richard Gibbs, otherwise called 'Gibbo', of a Queens Street in Montego Bay.

Police told THE STAR that they are following some leads into the killing, and are hoping to make a breakthrough soon.

Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network are that at about 2:30 p.m., Gibbs was at a shop on Dome Street in Montego Bay, when a man armed with a machete attacked and chopped him.

The police were summoned and Gibbs was rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Barnett Street police are investigating.

- C.T.