KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police say they have retrieved a firearm, believed to have been used in the attack on a senior policewoman and her daughters in Portmore, St Catherine Tuesday night.

The weapon, a Ruger 9mm pistol, was used in the attack that police speculate was a reprisal carried out in connection with the fatal shooting of a man by lawmen in the parish earlier that day.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Derrick Knight, who is in charge of Area Five, disclosed that the attack is suspected to have been spurred by the death of 23-year-old Raheem Chantiloupe, who was fatally shot during a confrontation with a police team in Naggo Head in the parish about 3:00 pm.

According to the police, Chantiloupe had been charged with murder.

Reports are that three men invaded the family’s home about 8:20 pm and opened gunfire, injuring a female police inspector and her daughter, who is also a police officer.  The inspector’s 17-year-old daughter was also grazed by a bullet in the incident.

A man believed to be one of the attackers was killed during the invasion.

He has been identified as Kayon Edwards otherwise called Salt Fish, of a Central Village address in St Catherine.

Meanwhile, the police said that a second suspect in the shooting attack is currently in police custody after he turned up at hospital with gunshot wounds.