Update | Alleged gunmen fatally shot by police in St Catherine identified
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The police have identified the four men who were fatally shot during an alleged armed confrontation with cops last Wednesday along the Linstead Bypass in St Catherine.
They are 19-year-old Kemar Tucker of Penwood Road; 27-year-old Kemar Williams, otherwise called ‘Johnny’, of Verma Road; 34-year-old shopkeeper Dane Lewis; and 40-year-old labourer Nicholas Singh.
The police reported that the four men were fatally shot by a police team in the vicinity of the Rosemount roundabout in St Catherine.
According to police reports, the men were intercepted in a Kia motor car following their alleged involvement in the murder of St Catherine businessman Horace ‘Goudie’ Crossman in Guys Hill, St Catherine.
The men allegedly shot at the police, and during the exchange of gunfire they were hit, while an accomplice escaped.
The police reported that two illegal guns were seized.
The Independent Commission of Investigation and the police’s Inspectorate of Professional Standards Oversight Bureau are conducting separate probes into the matter.
- Rasbert Turner
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