BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AFTER some six months of an intensive investigation into the shooting-death of Eric ‘Jun Jun’ Thompson of Ponds Pasture, a teenager from McKnight was charged for the offence.
According to a police communiqué, 18-year-old Denny Harris of McKnight was on Monday (Aug. 12) charged for the murder of Thompson.
Harris was also charged with Discharging a Firearm in a Public Place, which was committed on February 12, 2019, the day after he allegedly shot and killed Thompson.
Reportedly, at about 10 p.m. on Monday, February 11, 2018 when Thompson arrived at his Ponds Pasture home, a lone gunman had shot him multiple times.
The 28-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Eric ‘Jun Jun’ Thompson’s death had taken to four, the number of homicides committed in the Federation for the year.