Slain cop’s gun recovered
THE police have recovered the Glock pistol taken from 47-year-old police Corporal Christopher Smith by gunmen who fatally shot him at a gas station on Beechwood Avenue in St Andrew on December 6, 2024.
According to the constabulary, about 2:00 pm on Monday members of the Kingston Western Police Divisional Intelligence Unit were conducting an operation along Asquith Street in Jones Town, in the the area called No Man’s Land, when three men who aroused their suspicion were seen walking across the open land.
The men were accosted by the police and one dropped what appeared to be a firearm on the ground. The item was retrieved and it was found to be a black Glock pistol bearing serial #KGM466 with a magazine containing nine 9mm cartridges.
It was later discovered that the gun was the one taken from Smith by his killers.
The men were immediately taken into custody by the police before one of the three
— a 22-year-old accountant of a Love Street, Kingston 12 address
— was arrested in connection with the seizure.
The police corporal, of a Caymanas Bay, St Catherine address, had reportedly driven his private motor car to the gas station on Beechwood Avenue to purchase fuel when he stumbled onto an active robbery.
While he waited at the gas station he was attacked, robbed, and shot several times.
Smith was transported to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries while being treated.
Earlier this month the police reported that they had charged 32-year-old Ornell Allen, otherwise called Nellie, a taxi operator of Westmore Gardens, Spanish Town, St Catherine, in relation to the fatal shooting of the police corporal.
Allen is charged with murder, conspiracy to murder, six counts of robbery with aggravation, possession of prohibited weapon, and unauthorised possession of ammunition.
The police say Allen was apprehended after he was found in possession of the Toyota Wish motor car that was used in the robbery of the gas station when Smith was killed.
A second man was arrested by the police in connection with the murder of the cop but up to press time on Monday the police had not said if he had been charged.
