Cops hold suspect in killing of former PM’s bodyguard
FOUR days after being named by Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas as one of the prime suspects in the killing of one of former prime minister Portia Simpson Miller’s bodyguards – Sergeant Edgerton Brown – the police on Wednesday nabbed 24-year-old Veron Irvin during an operation in St Mary.
“Veron Irving was held in St Mary. He has been arrested in connection with the murder of Sergeant Brown,” Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields told the Observer on Wednesday.
“He is being transported to a police station in Kingston where he is going to be interviewed,” Shields added.
Shields, at the same time, urged Irvin’s alleged accomplice, Carey Rose, 19, to turn himself in.
“We are urging him to come in with his solicitor or his lawyer as soon as possible so that we can interview him in relation to Sergeant Brown’s death,” Shields said.
Rose is described as being 5 feet, 10 inches tall and of dark complexion, and is known to frequent sections of Olympic Gardens, Mona and Beverly Hills.
Brown was gunned down on Sundown Crescent in Kingston on September 6. According to the police, Brown was on the roadway with a female companion some time after 8:30 pm when gunmen attacked and shot him. He was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
