Alleged cop killer cut down in major security operation
Published:Friday | June 12, 2020 | 12:00 AM
The key target in this morning's deadly police operation has now been shot and killed.
The police say 39-year-old Damion Hamilton, a deportee, was shot dead in a major security operation in Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew this afternoon.
A 9mm pistol was reportedly taken from him.
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The police say Hamilton fired on the cops injuring one of them.
A second cop was also injured during the operation.
IN PHOTO: Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson and other senior cops at the scene of the deadly police shooting in Horizon Park, St Catherine.
The incident comes just under 12 hours after two other cops were shot dead and two injured in a pre-dawn attack.
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Superintendent Leon Clunis is among the injured cops.
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