Update: Five Killed In August Town In Alleged Shoot Out With Police

March 12, 2021 Zhane Squire

March 13, 2021 | Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie |

The police news service has released more details on their led operation that has left five( 5) deaths and the injury of a soldier in said early morning operation. You may recall us saying initially that the info was sketchy.

Update

Berry Gang

This update on the five killed in August Town, St Andrew, Jamaica W.I. as reported in Vision Newspaper yesterday, March 11, 2021, as members of the Berry Gang. The alleged criminals killed in that early morning confrontations by the joint security forces had a long rap sheet and some of the dead alleged hoodlums’ were for a long time on the police radar or on their most wanted list. In short the police claim they have a solid record of them as violence producers, based on stored police data.

INDECOM

We await the independent report from INDECOM on this most recent August Town joint security forces operation. We have no evidence of wrong doing by the police. Evidence of extra-judicial killings have been reported by INDECOM in their quarterly reports. Sixty percent of victims in police killings have been found to be unharmed.

Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie who is a veteran journalist monitored this police report on August Town killings, as relayed by radio via their news reports to the public.

Zhane Squire