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POLICE HAVE ARRESTED and jointly charged two men with the murder of Mark Walton.
Twenty-year-old Romario Antonio Clarke of Garden Land, Country Road, St Michael and Rashayne Aneil Blenman, 18, of Fitts Village St James are expected to appear in Magistrates Court today to answer the charge.
Walton was shot and killed last week Monday in Fitts Village. According to police, initial investigations indicate he was at a bus shed in the area when he was accosted by two men.
Both Clarke and Blenman were the subject of a wanted notice.
Clarke is also facing additional charges of serious bodily harm and  unlawful use of a firearm in connection with the July 17 shooting of a man as well as wounding, dating back to December last year.
(PR/SAT)

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