{"id":260225,"date":"2026-08-06T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260225\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:06:10","slug":"reggae-artist-who-recently-performed-in-bethlehem-shot-killed-in-jamaica-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260225\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggae artist who recently performed in Bethlehem shot, killed in Jamaica | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Reggae artist who recently performed in Bethlehem was murdered in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Jamaica Observer, Brian Todd Boucher &#8212; known as Ras Ajai &#8212; was shot and killed in the city of Portmore on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Reggae artists Facebook, that&#8217;s his home city.<\/p>\n<p>The search for the gunman is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Just last month, Ras Ajai performed at SteelStacks for the OneEarth RaggaeFest.<\/p>\n<p>He was 43 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Reggae artist who recently performed in Bethlehem was murdered in Jamaica. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,110409,12353],"class_list":["post-260225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-brian-todd-boucher","tag-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}