Murder preliminary hearing date set

A preliminary inquiry date has been set in the case against two men accused of the murder of 42 year-old Clifton Brown of Whitehall, St. Elizabeth. Facing the murder charge is Leighton McLennon, 22, of Stonehenge, St. James and Kimari Stephen, 26, of Ginger Hill, St. Elizabeth. The two men were remanded in custody until January 25, 2010 when the preliminary inquiry will begin. Reports are that on May 17,2009 about 1:45pm, Brown, who was a salesman, was driving his Toyota Townace panel van along the Summer Hill main road when two men posing as customers stopped him. The men shot him several times and robbed him as well as to relieve him of his license firearm before fleeing the scene. Brown was pronounced dead at the Cornwall Regional Hospital.