Suspects being questioned in killings of St Thomas cops
POLICE were, up to late yesterday, still interrogating four men in relation to the killing of two policemen in St Thomas on Tuesday.
Fifty-year-old Corporal Kenneth Davis of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF’s ) Protective Services Division, and Constable Craig Palmer, 35, — who was assigned to Denham Town Police Station — were peppered with bullets by men travelling in a motor car as they enjoyed a game of dominoes with friends at Poor Man’s Corner in the parish. The incident happened at approximately 8:30 pm.
Their killings have been widely condemned by people of all spheres of society.
“The men were brought in for questioning just hours after the cops were shot dead while playing a game of dominoes at a shop in a section of the parish called Poor Man’s Corner,” a senior officer at the Yallahs Police Station told the
Jamaica Observer yesterday.
But the police said the alleged mastermind behind the killings, Marlon Perry who goes by the alias ‘Duppy Film’ , was still at large.
They alleged that Perry, who is a resident of Phillipsfield in Yallahs, is deeply involved in the drugs-for-guns trade with other criminals in Haiti and leads a gang consisting of several Haitian men who are believed to be in Jamaica illegally.
The police have so far linked Perry with 15 murders across the island.
Apart from Perry, the police are also urging two other men identified as Jason Foster, 21, of Albion in the parish, and a man known only as ‘Patta’, also of a St Thomas address, to immediately turn themselves over to the Yallahs police.