The mutilated body of a man was found in Canaan district, St. James on Thursday night.
The deceased is 25-year-old Trevaughn Stoddard of a Smithfield address in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland.
It's reported that about 9:00 p.m., residents in the Canaan community stumbled upon Stoddard's body, which was lying at the side of a house with multiple chop wounds.
They summoned the police.
On arrival of the lawmen, it was discovered that the victim's throat was slashed and his left hand severed.
The scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue.
Stoddard is the third person to be killed in the Canaan community since the start of the week.
His body was discovered in the same vicinity where two men from the community, 24-year-old Romaine Melville and 30-year-old Andre Brown, were shot and killed Wednesday morning.