Cop charged with murder

Ballistic evidence has reportedly linked a policeman and three other men to a murder that occured on Windsor Road in Clarendon on July 7.

The cop, Chenn Downer, 26, was charged with murder last Friday. He is charged jointly with Tafari Ross, a tractor operator. Both are from Old Harbour in St Catherine.

Also charged is 33-year-old Keflyn Pennant, a farmer, and 43-year-old Bertram Burrell, a truck driver, both of Burnt Ground district in Hanover.

Reports from the May Pen police are that about 11:15 p.m. on July 7, Vincent Williams was in his yard when loud explosions were heard.

The police were summoned and a search was conducted of the area and one Lorcin 9mm pistol with a magazine containing six 9mm rounds of ammunition were seized. Williams was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Later that evening, the constable and the other men were arrested after their vehicle was intercepted at the intersection of Glenmuir Road and Muirhead Avenue in the parish. Two firearms were found in the motor vehicle.