Suspect in Rockfort killings shot dead by cops

A relative of Jordan Green, the suspect in Monday's quintuple killing in Rockfort, Kingston, who was fatally shot by police, says that he was a "victim of circumstance".

Green was reportedly cut down by lawmen on Tuesday on Rusden Road in Rockfort during an alleged shootout. A firearm was reportedly retrieved.

"Most people weh get out, a options dem have more than him. Nobody never complain about him doing anything wrong, but you done know, when you live in a community like this, this ago happen," the relative said. "A community like this, the youth them nuh have much role mode."

Residents said that Green was not in the Pleasant Hill area which was the scene of Monday night's mass shooting. They say he was in Ocho Rios, St Ann, and only returned to the area on Tuesday morning. Emotions ran high as they cried that Green was killed in cold blood. Alleged eyewitnesses said that he was shirtless and at a friend's house when the police fatally shot him.

"Him beg fi him life! Him say 'Duh nuh kill me!' And we stay from all the way out deh so and hear him a answer them and a beg fi him life," one person said. The Independent Commission of Investigations has confirmed that its teams were dispatched to investigate the circumstances of the fatal shooting. Relatives said Green "grow up as a rough little youth", but he was well educated and barely spoke.

"People send him anywhere or ask him fi help them with any construction work and him do it," an elder recalled. Another relative said that Green chose to stay in the area even though siblings had moved away.

"Him just love yah so and I don't know why," the relative said. Green attended Vauxhall High School and was skilled in masonry and construction, but, according to loved ones, he lacked guidance. They said his mother passed when he was a baby and he was raised by his sisters and aunts. One of his aunts, Paula O'Brien, expressed shock at his death.

"I stand up at the gate and see the jeep a pass and a somebody say a you nephew in deh. Him just eat the food and up a the yard. He is not a violent person. Mi can't understand it," she said. Another relative said Green wanted to attend HEART/NSTA Trust to get official certification.