Tweet
BY COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter
robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
THREE policemen were shot and injured and two men who police say were "known gunmen" lost their lives during an alleged gunbattle in Hannah Town, West Kingston yesterday.
Following the shooting, there was prolonged gunfire in sections of West Kingston as armed men challenged the police for almost two hours.
At the nearby Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), where the gunmen were pronounced dead and the injured cops admitted for treatment, police securing the facility had to take cover as gunshots rang out outside the institution's rear entrance. The incident sent staff, patients, reporters and dozens of residents who had converged to get word on the men's condition scurrying for cover.
No other injuries were reported.
Up to late afternoon the cops -- one of whom was shot in the neck -- were listed in stable condition.
Residents identified the dead men as Marvin 'Kingsley' Kelly and a man known only as 'Fruits Man'.
Police said both were known gunmen in the area, and that a Glock pistol and a bulletproof vest were taken from a house in which they were killed.
According to the police, they went into a section of the Denham and Hannah town communities for Kelly and 'Fruits Man', but came under fire from a group of heavily armed thugs.
"We understand that three officers were shot, one in the neck and one in the left arm. I don't know where the other officer was hit," said one of several high-ranking cops who visited KPH. "Two known gunmen were shot and killed also," he added.
Yesterday, the house where the two men were killed resembled a scene from a horror movie.
Clots of blood covered the living room floor downstairs, and virtually every wall on the second floor of the two-bedroom structure had bullet holes.
Bullets also damaged a television set and pieces of furniture on which blood-stained clothes were strewn about in one of the rooms.
Kelly's mother, identified only as 'Queenie', was brought to tears after she exited the building.
"I don't even see my son. Some people said that him dead and other people tell me that him don't dead; I don't know," she said, adding that her son lived at the house with the mother of his child.
"Is one time my son ever go to jail. I don't hear him name calling in anything and nobody -- no police or anybody -- can't come tell me what my son has done to die like this all now," she added.
Yesterday, Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting condemned the shooting of the cops and blamed the incident on the Government's refusal to sign an extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a release to the press, Bunting said the incident pointed to a chronic breakdown of law and order in the country.
"The continued failure of the Government to uphold the law and treaties in relation to extradition is but one manifestation of its failure to pursue a clear course on crime," Bunting said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...ooting_7489197
robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
THREE policemen were shot and injured and two men who police say were "known gunmen" lost their lives during an alleged gunbattle in Hannah Town, West Kingston yesterday.
Following the shooting, there was prolonged gunfire in sections of West Kingston as armed men challenged the police for almost two hours.
At the nearby Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), where the gunmen were pronounced dead and the injured cops admitted for treatment, police securing the facility had to take cover as gunshots rang out outside the institution's rear entrance. The incident sent staff, patients, reporters and dozens of residents who had converged to get word on the men's condition scurrying for cover.
No other injuries were reported.
Up to late afternoon the cops -- one of whom was shot in the neck -- were listed in stable condition.
Residents identified the dead men as Marvin 'Kingsley' Kelly and a man known only as 'Fruits Man'.
Police said both were known gunmen in the area, and that a Glock pistol and a bulletproof vest were taken from a house in which they were killed.
According to the police, they went into a section of the Denham and Hannah town communities for Kelly and 'Fruits Man', but came under fire from a group of heavily armed thugs.
"We understand that three officers were shot, one in the neck and one in the left arm. I don't know where the other officer was hit," said one of several high-ranking cops who visited KPH. "Two known gunmen were shot and killed also," he added.
Yesterday, the house where the two men were killed resembled a scene from a horror movie.
Clots of blood covered the living room floor downstairs, and virtually every wall on the second floor of the two-bedroom structure had bullet holes.
Bullets also damaged a television set and pieces of furniture on which blood-stained clothes were strewn about in one of the rooms.
Kelly's mother, identified only as 'Queenie', was brought to tears after she exited the building.
"I don't even see my son. Some people said that him dead and other people tell me that him don't dead; I don't know," she said, adding that her son lived at the house with the mother of his child.
"Is one time my son ever go to jail. I don't hear him name calling in anything and nobody -- no police or anybody -- can't come tell me what my son has done to die like this all now," she added.
Yesterday, Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting condemned the shooting of the cops and blamed the incident on the Government's refusal to sign an extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a release to the press, Bunting said the incident pointed to a chronic breakdown of law and order in the country.
"The continued failure of the Government to uphold the law and treaties in relation to extradition is but one manifestation of its failure to pursue a clear course on crime," Bunting said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...ooting_7489197
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
Comment