Security guard shot in alleged confrontation with cops

A fatal shooting by the police in Duckensfield, St Thomas, on Sunday has left a family seeking answers.

The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old Denmar McKoy, a King Alarm security guard. It is alleged that McKoy was assisting his 17-year-old intoxicated brother to get home when he started to scold him. The police reportedly intervened and McKoy was shot during a confrontation.

An alleged eyewitness told the news team that the police were questioning the younger brother, before striking him with a gun.

"Denmar start ask him what that fah and in the same time the police start pulling away Denmar's friend that was there and Denmar followed him because he was going in the dark. That's when he shot him," the person said. Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations Hugh Faulkner told THE STAR that an investigation is ongoing but was in its early stages.

McKoy's older sister, Allison, disclosed that the younger brother feels guilty for being out, stressing that McKoy would have been alive if it wasn't for his actions.

"This brought this rage inside me, mi feel angry. Mi a tell you the honest truth if it was an accident he was involved in and he ended up at the hospital and he died, I could have coped. But to know his life was taken from him, I can't live with it. I need justice for my brother, this is so stressful for my family," Allison said.

Efforts to get a comment from Superintendent Allison Byfield, head of the St Thomas Police Division were unsuccessful.