The police in St Elizabeth are theorising that a businessman from the parish committed suicide after being sought in connection with the shooting of his child's mother.

Sixty-one-year-old Stanford Bennett, also known as 'Domingo' was found dead in a cane field in Braes River in the parish on Tuesday night.

Investigators say the man was found in his Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck with a gunshot wound to the head, and his licensed firearm beside him.

Investigators also say Bennett was being sought since last weekend following an incident in which his former girlfriend was shot and injured during a quarrel.

According to reports, Bennett visited the woman in Olive Park, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, and an argument developed, during which she was shot.

Bennett then fled the scene.