INDECOM probing police fatal shooting in Mount Industry
Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 9:11 AM
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into the police fatal shooting of a man in Mount Industry, St Andrew, on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as 37-year-old labourer Joshimar Grey, otherwise called 'Pops', of Gordon Town, St Andrew.
About 4:30 a.m. a police party conducted an operation in Mount Industry during which Grey allegedly challenged the police with a handgun.
He was shot and injured.
The police say a Walter PPK pistol affixed with a magazine containing five rounds of nine millimetre cartridges was retrieved from him.
He was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
- Rasbert Turner
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