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Probe launched into shooting death of 'Bin Laden' in Kingston
Saturday, January 21, 2012
THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) — the agency responsible for investigating police shootings — has started a probe into Wednesday's fatal shooting of Everod Wright, alias 'Bin Laden' in Kingston.
Police said the deceased was wanted for the double murder of two brothers in the Rock Hall area of St Andrew on December 25, 2011.
Wright, 28, of 12 Park Lane in Kingston 19, was gunned down following a police operation in the poor Kingston community just after 5:20 pm.
According to INDECOM, the police were on a 'special operation' in the Park Lane area when they received information which resulted in the team conducting a search of the said premises. "While searching, it is alleged that an explosion was heard [coming] from the direction of the bathroom. The police subsequently fired in that direction and the deceased was later found in the bathroom clutching a .38 pistol and suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. The firearm which was recovered from the victim was loaded with three live cartridges and two spent shells with the serial number erased. The deceased was later taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead," INDECOM reported yesterday.
Witnesses, however, have refuted the police's account of the shooting. They claimed that the victim was inside the house sleeping when the police entered the premises, thereafter he woke up and went into the bathroom where the police shot him.
INDECOM investigators, who visited the community after the shooting, were informed by residents that the incident occurred approximately 5:00 pm and that the police left with the victim 40 minutes later. INDECOM said its investigators were collating the necessary statements and forensic evidence and that so far the hands of the officers involved in the shooting were swabbed and the body of the victim processed.
INDECOM has, in the meantime, appealed to anyone with information that can help with its investigation to call its office at 968-8875
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1k88vY3xa
Saturday, January 21, 2012
THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) — the agency responsible for investigating police shootings — has started a probe into Wednesday's fatal shooting of Everod Wright, alias 'Bin Laden' in Kingston.
Police said the deceased was wanted for the double murder of two brothers in the Rock Hall area of St Andrew on December 25, 2011.
Wright, 28, of 12 Park Lane in Kingston 19, was gunned down following a police operation in the poor Kingston community just after 5:20 pm.
According to INDECOM, the police were on a 'special operation' in the Park Lane area when they received information which resulted in the team conducting a search of the said premises. "While searching, it is alleged that an explosion was heard [coming] from the direction of the bathroom. The police subsequently fired in that direction and the deceased was later found in the bathroom clutching a .38 pistol and suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. The firearm which was recovered from the victim was loaded with three live cartridges and two spent shells with the serial number erased. The deceased was later taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead," INDECOM reported yesterday.
Witnesses, however, have refuted the police's account of the shooting. They claimed that the victim was inside the house sleeping when the police entered the premises, thereafter he woke up and went into the bathroom where the police shot him.
INDECOM investigators, who visited the community after the shooting, were informed by residents that the incident occurred approximately 5:00 pm and that the police left with the victim 40 minutes later. INDECOM said its investigators were collating the necessary statements and forensic evidence and that so far the hands of the officers involved in the shooting were swabbed and the body of the victim processed.
INDECOM has, in the meantime, appealed to anyone with information that can help with its investigation to call its office at 968-8875
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1k88vY3xa
