A JUTA tour operator was shot dead by gunmen along Barnett Street, in St. James, last night (July 22).

Dead is thirty-two-year-old Milton Smith, otherwise called ‘British’, of Pitfour, St. James.

Reports are that about 10:05 p.m., Citizens heard explosions and summoned the police.

On their arrival, lawmen found Smith lying face down in a pool of blood with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to his body.

He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.