Winston Riley fallecía el pasado 19 de Enero tras no lograr despertar del coma en el que se encontraba tras ser disparado en la cabeza.

La noticia se ha dado a conocer a través de las distintas redes sociales.

Beenie Man escribía en su Twitter: My condolence to Kurt Riley and family. RIP Winston Riley gone but will never be forgotten.

Y Stephen ‘DiGenius’ McGregor dijo también en Twitter: Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) Winston Riley (1946-2012)… Top Jamaican Producer. Condolences. @djkurtriley & the fam!

Más recientemente el periódico Jamaica Observer publicó el siguiente artículo:

[…]Winston, who is the father of Fame FM disc jockey Kurt Riley, had being plagued with a series of violent attacks. He was shot in August last year and later stabbed five times in September.

Kurt Riley told the Observer this morning that his father’s grieving relatives could not figure out a motive behind the attempts on his father’s life.

«Unfortunately Daddy didn’t wake up so we could talk to him to find out if there was something he was not telling us. He was a straightforward man, who was allergic to hypocrisy,» he said.[…]

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