Two men injured in controversial police shooting
TWO men were yesterday shot and injured following a gunfight between the police and gunmen near the normally busy intersection of Spanish Town Road and Albert Street in Denham Town, Kingston.
According to commanding officer of the Kingston
West Police Division, Superintendent Delroy Hewitt, officers were fired on after attempting to intercept a mini-van which was travelling on Albert Street.
“The police tried to get the driver of the vehicle to stop but were instead fired upon. They returned fire and two men ran from the vehicle. injured,” Hewitt said.
A second man is reported to have turned up at
the Kingston Public
Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound.
None of the injured men were arrested and no firearms were recovered, the police said.
However, persons who claim to have witnessed the incident have refuted the police’s version of events. They claimed the police fired wildly and injured more persons than have been reported.
“Them just start fire pure shot pan the bus and them shoot a mad woman and a next man,” an alleged eyewitness told the Observer. “One handicap boy that was in the bus look like him get shot too,” he added.
The police could not confirm the allegations and held firm to their account that the two men were the only ones injured in the incident.