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Title: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: Bally on October 14, 2009, 11:09:11 AM
Jamaican police: National team player killed
Associated Press
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Updated: October 14, 2009, 12:15 PM EDT 0 comments
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Jamaica defender Orane Simpson was fatally stabbed in the violence-wracked Kingston slum where he was raised, police said Wednesday.

A brief police statement said the 26-year-old player, a Jamaica international since 2005, was killed in Tivoli Gardens, a sprawling neighborhood that was the country's first government housing project.

Simpson was attacked late Tuesday. There have been no arrests, and police did not disclose specifics of the stabbing.

Howard Bell, an administrator with the Jamaican Football Federation, said the right back had recently been sidelined with an injury. He did not provide more details.

Team officials did not immediately return calls Wednesday.

Simpson also played with the Tivoli Gardens team in the Caribbean island's National Premier League. He was first called up to the Reggae Boyz in 2005 for a match against Australia.

Drug and extortion gangs are blamed for 90 percent of the homicides in Jamaica - 1,611 last year, about 10 times the rate in the United States, relative to population.

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Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: kicker on October 14, 2009, 11:32:22 AM
awful & very sad...
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: Trinidogg on October 14, 2009, 11:36:02 AM
 :o jeez this is sad yo RIP simpson...
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: kaliman2006 on October 14, 2009, 12:26:29 PM
Very sad news.

RIP dude.
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: Ngozi on October 14, 2009, 12:34:07 PM
Jeez boy we just killing each other jes so bwoy
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: trinikev on October 14, 2009, 01:15:17 PM
RIP....more senseless killings  :-\
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: Pointman on October 14, 2009, 01:45:03 PM
RIP dread...my condolences to the family. :'(
Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: weary1969 on October 14, 2009, 03:17:50 PM
RIP dread...my condolences to the family. :'(

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Title: Re: Jamaican police: National team player killed
Post by: Big Magician on October 14, 2009, 09:05:10 PM
blessings to the family
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