MEMBERS of the Waterford Police Station in St Catherine were left mourning yesterday following the shooting death of one of their own by gunmen in Bushy Park, Clarendon.

Sergeant Cleveland Wilson, 39, was fatally shot while having the final touches done to his beard as he sat in a barber’s chair in his hometown.

According to the police, early yesterday morning three men walked into the barber shop and asked the attendant for the price of a haircut.

However, the police said that upon receiving a response from the barber, the men brandished handguns and shot Sergeant Wilson several times. They then took the policeman’s firearm and his cellphone, after which they fled the scene on foot.

One of the policeman’s colleagues, Inspector Ann Davy, said he was a good worker.

“He was always. loving, caring, and if you needed someone to talk to, he was always there,” Inspector Davy told the Observer in a despondent voice.

“It rough, it nuh easy,” she commented, describing how the other cops were dealing with the death of their colleague.

Sergeant Wilson, the eighth policeman to be murdered this year, is survived by his common-law wife, two sons and three daughters.