Members of the security forces at the crime scene in Trench Town following the killing of a policeman in the community.
October 20, 2022
WATCH: Cop, gunman killed in shootout in Trench Town
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A police corporal from the Kingston Western division is among two men dead following a shootout in Trench Town late Thursday.
OBSERVER ONLINE understands that the incident occurred sometime after 11pm on 3rd Street in the St Andrew community.
It is understood that a gunman engaged the cop in an exchange of gunfire during which both men were fatally shot.
An illegal firearm was seized following the incident.
There is now a heavy police and military presence on the scene.
It is the second policeman to have been killed in less than a week.
On Saturday, 22-year-old Constable Brian Martin was shot dead at a wake on Ricketts Avenue in Kingston 13. Four other people were shot in the incident.
