CALM returned to the tourist resort town of Negril yesterday following Thursday’s demonstration to protest against the fatal shooting of teenager Keena Nunez by the police on Wednesday.

There was, however, an increase in the number of police on the street of the town yesterday,

The shooting sparked a roadblock by scores of angry residents of Whitehall and Red Ground along the main road leading to Savanna-la-Mar, at about 8:00 Thursday morning

The residents claimed that Nunez was innocent of any wrongdoing.

According to the Negril Police, at about 9:40 pm Wednesday, they got a call that gunmen had held up some people on the Norman Manley Boulevard. They responded and on their arrival they were greeted with gunfire. The fire was returned and one man fell and was later taken the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was later identified as Nunez.

The other man, the police said, was chased and apprehended and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol taken from him. He has been identified as Collin Holmes, 26, of Whitehall in Westmoreland. He has been charged with shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm But the residents of Whitehall and Red Ground are up in arms against the police who they claim shot the teen in “cold-blood”.

According to Nunez’s relatives, he was not a gunman. “We do not know him as any gunman,” said brother, Andy. And his sister Tracy-Ann Froyze, said he was a calm and easygoing person and was obedient.

His mother Beryl Bromley, said the police in Negril knew her son very well and just couldn’t fathom why they killed him.