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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Assault on cops</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Policeman shot, other stabbed yesterday; Six attacked since Tuesday</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter
Saturday, January 06, 2007
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Police officers process the scene at the intersection of Barry and King Street where Special Constable Charles Gordon was shot and injured by a gunman yesterday. (Photo: Brayn Cummings)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Two policemen were hospitalised yesterday after they were wounded in separate sections of the capital, Kingston, bringing to six the number of cops attacked - two fatally - since Tuesday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In yesterday's attacks, one of the policemen - Special Corporal Charles Gordon - was shot, while the other cop, whose identity was not released by the constabulary, was stabbed.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Special Corporal Gordon was issuing a traffic ticket to a motorist at approximately 10:30 am outside the Khemlani Mart store at the intersection of King and Barry streets in Downtown Kingston when he was shot in the neck and head by a gunman.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Observer was unable to confirm a report that a shrimp and bammy vendor sitting by the store entrance was also shot and injured during the attack.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gordon was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital where he underwent surgery. His condition was listed as critical.
At least seven markers placed on the sidewalk by detectives indicated the number of spent shells found at the scene.
A lengthy blood trail was also visible below the Khemlani Mart logo to the left of the store's entrance.<P class=StoryText align=justify>While detectives searched the crime scene with people looking on in shock, one woman with a loud, squeaky voice took the opportunity to preach and sing hymns to the throng of onlookers.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The second attack occurred at about 4:30 pm yesterday in the community of Pleasant Heights in Bull Bay, St Andrew.
Police say the policeman drove into the area and saw a group of persons standing in the road. The policeman reportedly asked them to move but was instead dragged from his car and stabbed. He was taken to hospital and is listed in stable condition.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Four other policemen were attacked earlier this week. On Wednesday night, a constable from the St Andrew South Police Division was shot and injured along Marcus Garvey Drive after he and several other cops from the division responded to a call that a section of that road had been blocked.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In St Mary, the police are investigating allegations that a policeman was attacked and beaten by a group of men on Tuesday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>According to the police, Constable Kevon Kelly, who is assigned to the Grants Pen Police Station, was attacked in the district of Mango Valley, St Mary, after a dispute with a woman. It is alleged that during the dispute Kelly bit the woman on one of her breasts. The woman made an alarm and Kelly was accosted and beaten by the men. He received injuries to his left ankle and the back of his head, as well as a stab wound to his left side.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Also on Tuesday, two cops, Sergeant Huan Genus of the Clarks Town police and Constable Ralston Ebanks from the May Pen police, were attacked and murdered by gunmen in separate incidents.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Constable Ebanks and his sister, Fernandis Ebanks-Clarke, were fatally shot as they stopped at a traffic light on the Braeton main ro
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Policeman shot, other stabbed yesterday; Six attacked since Tuesday</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter
Saturday, January 06, 2007
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=380 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Police officers process the scene at the intersection of Barry and King Street where Special Constable Charles Gordon was shot and injured by a gunman yesterday. (Photo: Brayn Cummings)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Two policemen were hospitalised yesterday after they were wounded in separate sections of the capital, Kingston, bringing to six the number of cops attacked - two fatally - since Tuesday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In yesterday's attacks, one of the policemen - Special Corporal Charles Gordon - was shot, while the other cop, whose identity was not released by the constabulary, was stabbed.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Special Corporal Gordon was issuing a traffic ticket to a motorist at approximately 10:30 am outside the Khemlani Mart store at the intersection of King and Barry streets in Downtown Kingston when he was shot in the neck and head by a gunman.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Observer was unable to confirm a report that a shrimp and bammy vendor sitting by the store entrance was also shot and injured during the attack.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Gordon was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital where he underwent surgery. His condition was listed as critical. At least seven markers placed on the sidewalk by detectives indicated the number of spent shells found at the scene.
A lengthy blood trail was also visible below the Khemlani Mart logo to the left of the store's entrance.<P class=StoryText align=justify>While detectives searched the crime scene with people looking on in shock, one woman with a loud, squeaky voice took the opportunity to preach and sing hymns to the throng of onlookers.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The second attack occurred at about 4:30 pm yesterday in the community of Pleasant Heights in Bull Bay, St Andrew.
Police say the policeman drove into the area and saw a group of persons standing in the road. The policeman reportedly asked them to move but was instead dragged from his car and stabbed. He was taken to hospital and is listed in stable condition.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Four other policemen were attacked earlier this week. On Wednesday night, a constable from the St Andrew South Police Division was shot and injured along Marcus Garvey Drive after he and several other cops from the division responded to a call that a section of that road had been blocked.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In St Mary, the police are investigating allegations that a policeman was attacked and beaten by a group of men on Tuesday.<P class=StoryText align=justify>According to the police, Constable Kevon Kelly, who is assigned to the Grants Pen Police Station, was attacked in the district of Mango Valley, St Mary, after a dispute with a woman. It is alleged that during the dispute Kelly bit the woman on one of her breasts. The woman made an alarm and Kelly was accosted and beaten by the men. He received injuries to his left ankle and the back of his head, as well as a stab wound to his left side.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Also on Tuesday, two cops, Sergeant Huan Genus of the Clarks Town police and Constable Ralston Ebanks from the May Pen police, were attacked and murdered by gunmen in separate incidents.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Constable Ebanks and his sister, Fernandis Ebanks-Clarke, were fatally shot as they stopped at a traffic light on the Braeton main ro