Policeman shot in buttocks

A policeman was shot in his buttocks by a female cop in the resort town of Ocho Rios, St Ann, on New Year’s Day.

The cop was part of a team that intercepted a Toyota Probox motor car, which was being used to flee the scene of a murder that was committed at Little Dunn’s River in the parish.

It is reported that the men who were travelling in the car got into a tussle with a policeman, forcing a female officer to fire two shots from her service weapon. One of the bullets hit her colleague in his buttocks. He was taken to hospital and later treated and released.

The men, one of whom is believed to have committed the murder, have been arrested. heavy showers to occur across most parishes, especially eastern and northern ones, tomorrow through to the weekend. Additionally, expect windy conditions and cooler temperatures across the island beginning tomorrow. whom he had arrested at a party. The incident happened at the Bamboo Ridge community in St Catherine on New Year’s Day.

Reports from the Glengoffe police are that at about 4 a.m., a party was in session in the area when Leroy Fennel, otherwise called ‘Daddy Ran’, a salesman of Mount Industry, allegedly brandished a firearm and fired two gunshots.

The police said that Fennel was accosted and searched. One Glock 17 pistol with a magazine containing twelve 9 mm rounds of ammunition was found in his possession.

The police said that he escaped their custody while he was being transported to the police station. He was, however, recaptured and placed in jail.

He has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition, and escaping police custody.