MONEAGUE, St Ann – A relative of a mentally ill man who was killed by the Moneague police on Saturday has challenged the police version of the fatal shooting.

Elaine Gordon, sister of Junior Anthony Brown, 41, who the police shot and killed in Moneague, St Ann, on Saturday, said there are many holes in the police’s version of how Brown finally met his death.

“The whole thing just don’t add up,” Gordon told the Observer yesterday.

The police reported Saturday that a businessman had gone to open his store at around 6:30 Saturday morning when he discovered Brown taking a bath at the back of the building. When the businessman asked Brown to leave the premises it is alleged that Brown made after him with a cutlass, the police claimed.

The businessman then went to get the police who accompanied him to the back of the store where they too were allegedly attacked by Brown, said the constabulary in its official report.

It is further alleged that one of the cops discharged his firearm, hitting Brown in the head, killing him.

The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is probing the incident.

But according to Gordon, Brown was shot on the street, not on the premises where he was said to be bathing.

“What puzzles me is that he was shot on the road, not on the premises and, furthermore, he was shot in the back of the head, so I theorise he was trying to run away,” Gordon said. That seems to throw out the allegations that he attacked the cops, Gordon argued. Additionally, Gordon said, the businessman told her he did not witness the shooting.

“And when I went to the morgue he was fully clothed, he had on four pants and four shirts and they weren’t wet. How come he was fully clothed and yet he was said to be taking a bath?” Gordon questioned.

Gordon said the police in Moneague are familiar with Brown as he frequents the area near the police station, where the incident is said to have occurred.

Brown was said to have wandered from his home, where he lived with his mother, about a week before he was killed.

According to his sister, Brown gets regular treatment from the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, and was an active farmer whenever he was well.

An autopsy is to be carried out on the body.

gilchristc@jamaicaobserver.com