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| Imani Green Jamaica killing: Eight people arrested | Imani Green Jamaica killing: Eight people arrested |
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| Eight people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a British girl in Jamaica. | |
| Imani Green from Balham, south London, was inside her cousin's shop in the north coast town of Duncans on Friday when a man entered the store and an argument broke out. | Imani Green from Balham, south London, was inside her cousin's shop in the north coast town of Duncans on Friday when a man entered the store and an argument broke out. |
| Police said the man opened fire. Imani died and three others were injured. | Police said the man opened fire. Imani died and three others were injured. |
| Deputy Supt Steve Brown, from Jamaica's police force, said the arrested people were being questioned. | |
| "We have taken people into custody as we search for a motive for the attack," he told BBC Breakfast | |
| Gang warfare | |
| "We've heard about gang warfare but we find it a bit difficult to believe because where the incident took place it is a sleepy community, nothing happens there, it's an isolated incident. | |
| "But it could be linked to a number of things and we are looking at all possibilities and following all the leads that we are getting." | |
| He added: "We are confident we will make a breakthrough very, very soon." | |
| He said the injuries of the three others shot, believed to be two women and a man, were not considered life-threatening. | |
| 'Happy, playful child' | |
| Imani, who was a pupil at Fircroft Primary School in Tooting, suffered from sickle cell anaemia and had been given permission by the school for her extended trip to Jamaica. | |
| Head teacher Anne Wilson said: "Imani was a happy, playful child who was popular with staff and pupils alike." | |
| Imani, her mother and her sister had been staying with relatives in Duncans. | |
| The family arrived on the island on 27 December and were thought to have planned to return to the UK at the end of the month. | |
| After the shooting, Imani's sister Janella Parmer said: "We heard gunshots. We ran outside and shouted 'Imani, Imani, Imani'. | |
| "I picked her up off the ground and realised she was still breathing. | |
| "I flagged down a car and they drove us to hospital." | |
| Imani is understood to have been hit twice, once in the head. |