Guard, student charged in acid attack

Samuel Bent, the security guard who on Wednesday doused a Westmoreland student with acid, has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm while the teen, Fabian Wallace, has been slapped with charges of assault at common law.

They are both booked to appear in court on May 11.

Bent, who said the teen attacked him with a machete during an argument over the boy’s attire, is on $40,000 bail.

Cop killed, dumped on roadside

The gunshot-riddled body of Constable Anthony Dixon was found along the New Works main road in St Catherine at about 10:29 pm Thursday night.

The Linstead police, who are investigating, say the cop’s loaded gun is missing and they think his money was stolen. Dixon, who was assigned to the Mobile Reserve, was the sixth lawman to be killed since the start of the year.

Tourist dies after jumping from moving vehicle

An American tourist who was staying at a popular Negril resort is suspected of committing suicide by jumping from a moving vehicle along the Norman Manley Boulevard at about 10:00 pm Thursday.

Georgia resident, Roy Kevin Stapler, 32, arrived in the island on April 11 and was expected to leave within two weeks.

According to Observer sources, Stapler’s first attempt to jump from a bus window were thwarted after the driver asked him to get out of the vehicle.

He called another driver, sources said, and while being taken back to his hotel, jumped from the window in the vicinity of the abandoned Mahogany Inn Villa. He received injuries to his head and body and died on the spot.

Two men fatally shot by cops

Two men, who were unidentified up to press time, were fatally shot by the police and a gun seized during an operation in the St Andrew South police area yesterday morning.

According to the police’s information arm, the incident took place at about 5:50 am when cops entered a house on Shakespeare Avenue and were greeted by gunfire. Cops said they returned fire, two of the men were hit while the other escaped. The men were pronounced dead at hospital.

Lawmen say preliminary investigations revealed that the Glock pistol that was seized was stolen from Donald Lee, who was murdered in St Ann on April 10.