Timothy Harper, 43, was gunned down on Saturday in his car in Jamaica

A father-of-two from Delaware has been murdered while picking up his new wife from work in Jamaica.

Timothy Harper, 43, was murdered in Port Lucea near the trendy beach town of Negril in Westmoreland, on Saturday at around 9.05pm.

A gunman is said to have shot him several times while he waited in his car.

It is unclear if he robbed the man or what the motive for the killing was.

He was picking up his wife, Tressan, from her job, according to local reports.

She says she works at the five star Grand Palladium Hotel on social media.

Jamaican authorities have not yet confirmed the details surrounding his death but friends say they are determined to find his killer.

Harper was originally from Delaware but had been living in Jamaica for several years after moving there with his American ex-wife and their two children.

In 2017, he married Jamaican native Tressan Kennedy.

Friends say Harper had dual citizenship himself and owned a restaurant on the island but further details about his life there were not immediately clear on Tuesday.

Harper married his Jamaican wife Tressan in 2017. He was picking her up at work when he was shot dead, according to local police

According to Tressan's Facebook profile, she works at the five star resort, the Grand Palladium Resort and Spa

Harper, shown in an image used on a GoFundMe page raising money to bring his body home, moved to Jamaica when his ex-wife did so he could be near their two young daughters

His family in the US are now fundraising to bring back his body home on a GoFundMe page.

They also want his children and ex-wife to move back for fear they may be in danger.

Andrew Johnson, a friend from Delaware, said Harper had had his life threatened in Jamaica before.

'He had a motorcycle stolen at machine gunpoint, and he bought a restaurant that was burglarized.

'A lot of his friends were scared for his safety and urged him to move back but he did not and the island took his life,' Johnson told The Delaware Channel.

He said he was determined to find out what had happened to him.

Tressan, his wife, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's inquiries on Tuesday morning.

She has children of her own from a previous relationship.

The Grand Palladium has not yet responded to DailyMail.com's inquiries.