Popular dancehall producer Patrick Samuels aka “Roach” was shot and killed by unknown assailants along a section of Mannings Hill road in St. Andrew this morning.

The shooting occurred at 4:12 am, when three shots were fired into a vehicle at the Texaco Gas Station at Mary Brown’s corner. As the victim tried to drive away, three more shots were fired, and the victim’s vehicle crashed nearby on Mannings Hill Road.

Samuels was formerly Vybz Kartel’s road manager before they later split. He later came to prominence again in 2011, when teamed up with Justus Arison for the now popular Dancehall project “Overtime Riddim”, where several hits such as “Settle Down” by Mavado and Daniel Bedingfield’s “Sometimes You Just Know”.