Man fatally shot in alleged shootout with police in Spanish Town
Published:Friday | October 11, 2024 | 9:10 AM
The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police during an alleged shootout in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Dead is 38-year-old Anthony Kemar Richards, otherwise called 'Ganja', of March Pen Road in Spanish Town.
Reports are that about 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, a police party conducted a cordoned and search operation in March Road area.
Upon entering a premises, Richards, who was reportedly armed with a handgun, fired at the police.
The fire was returned.
He was shot and injured and, according to the police, a nine millimetre pistol affixed with a magazine containing one round of ammunition was seized from him.
He was assisted to the Spanish Town Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
- Rasbert Turner
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