POLICE on Wednesday charged a deportee for the shooting and injuring of two police constables on Red Hills Road in August.

Crime officer at the Constant Spring Police Station, Deputy Superintendent Altermoth ‘Parra’ Campbell, yesterday told the Observer that the man – who was deported from England – was charged following an identification parade this week.

The man’s name has been withheld, but Campbell disclosed that he is to face other identification parades in relation to a string of gun-related crimes, including murder, in the Corporate Area.

“We suspect that this man is responsible for at least three murders in the St Andrew South Division and so we cannot release his name until we have completed all our checks,” Campbell told the Observer yesterday.

The deputy superintendent said that the man frequented communities in South St Andrew, and the hotbed 100 Lane community in St Andrew North.

He is to face the courts today or early next week, Campbell said.

The constables were shot as the gunmen made their escape from the Park Lane community, located off Red Hills Road, after opening fire at residents there. Two females were also shot in the incident.

One of the officers was shot in the arm and leg, while the other received a gunshot wound to the eye. Yesterday, Campbell said the injured officers were recuperating well at their homes.

The attack on the officers came two days after Constable Georgette Collymore, also from the St Catherine North Police Division, was murdered at her home in Mount Ogle, Lawrence Tavern.

– Corey Robinson.