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Allman Town residents protest police killing of 13-y-o boy, man
Corey Robinson
Friday, December 28, 2007
THE shooting of a 13-year-old boy and another man by police yesterday enraged residents of the central Kingston community of Allman Town who took to the streets, blocking sections of the National Heroes Circle and disrupting vehicular traffic.
The irate residents criticised the police for what they alleged was the cold-blooded killings of Mark Bachelor, 24, and the teenager, Andre Issacs.
"The police them just come kill the youth them for nothing at all," a man who identified himself as 'Fox' and Bachelor's stepfather told the Observer.
"Them have the youth them name down at the station from long time seh them a murderer and nothing don't go so," Fox explained, as he stood over a gutter which was soaked with the blood of the victims.
He claimed that his stepson and other men from the community were reported to the police as having connection with the murder of another man two weeks ago.
"A the youth mother go down to the station and give the police them the youth them name," Fox said. "She say the whole of the man them in the community know a who kill her son."
But while the residents protested the victim's innocence, the police yesterday gave a different story.
According to the Constabulary Communication Network's liaison officer, Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, officers on patrol came under fire from a group of men in the community shortly after 1:00 am.
The fire, he said, was returned and when the gun battle ended Bachelor and Isaacs were found with multiple gunshot wounds.
The police also alleged that a .38 pistol was taken from one of the deceased.
Yesterday, as police officers removed old refrigerators, stones and other debris from the roadways, the residents called on the Bureau of Special Investigations to investigate the matter.
Allman Town residents protest police killing of 13-y-o boy, man
Corey Robinson
Friday, December 28, 2007
THE shooting of a 13-year-old boy and another man by police yesterday enraged residents of the central Kingston community of Allman Town who took to the streets, blocking sections of the National Heroes Circle and disrupting vehicular traffic.
The irate residents criticised the police for what they alleged was the cold-blooded killings of Mark Bachelor, 24, and the teenager, Andre Issacs.
"The police them just come kill the youth them for nothing at all," a man who identified himself as 'Fox' and Bachelor's stepfather told the Observer.
"Them have the youth them name down at the station from long time seh them a murderer and nothing don't go so," Fox explained, as he stood over a gutter which was soaked with the blood of the victims.
He claimed that his stepson and other men from the community were reported to the police as having connection with the murder of another man two weeks ago.
"A the youth mother go down to the station and give the police them the youth them name," Fox said. "She say the whole of the man them in the community know a who kill her son."
But while the residents protested the victim's innocence, the police yesterday gave a different story.
According to the Constabulary Communication Network's liaison officer, Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, officers on patrol came under fire from a group of men in the community shortly after 1:00 am.
The fire, he said, was returned and when the gun battle ended Bachelor and Isaacs were found with multiple gunshot wounds.
The police also alleged that a .38 pistol was taken from one of the deceased.
Yesterday, as police officers removed old refrigerators, stones and other debris from the roadways, the residents called on the Bureau of Special Investigations to investigate the matter.