(Jamaica Star) The vehicles of two civilians that were caught up in Monday’s deadly shooting incident on Trafalgar Road in St Andrew were hit by at least six bullets.
According to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), one civilian vehicle was struck once to the rear windshield and the other at least five times to the rear. INDECOM said that the scene examination reveals that at least four motor vehicles were struck my bullets. A police car had at least five bullet strikes to the front and the suspect vehicle received at least 42 bullet strikes.
More than 70 9mm casings were recovered from the scene. Two men were shot and killed during the incident while a third man reportedly escaped from the scene.
The police said that two firearms were recovered from within the vehicle in which the suspects travelled. Police said that they were responding to information, captured on video surveillance, that the men had just murdered Robert Fletcher, a businessman, in the nearby community of Swallowfield.
UNDER EXAMINATION
The vehicle was spotted and intercepted along Trafalgar Road, where three officers initially confronted the occupants. During that encounter gunshots were fired. INDECOM said that the details of the circumstances of the discharge of weapons are under examination.
The independent investigators said that multiple video recordings from social media, private locations and JamaicaEye, will be examined to ascertain the chronology of the events.
On Monday, an eyewitness to Fletcher’s murder told THE STAR that he said he had received a threatening phone call. The eyewitness also said that moments after they discussed the nature of that call, Fletcher spotted two men who were standing across the road, directly in front of his business place.
“Him say to me say ‘look pon dem man yah a come’, and mi turn to him and say dem look suspicious, and him agree. But then by time dem reach across the road mi see him start walk go outside. So mi ask him seh why him a guh go outside pon di front when dem just threatened him this morning,” the eyewitness said.
“Di two man dem come inside and one a dem buy a cigarette. The other one light it and den dem walk off. By the time dem reach di door, mi see di shooter start tek out the gun. But as mi fi say ‘Robert’, mi hear ‘blow’,” the eyewitness said.
