INDECOM probing fatal police killing in Ewarton, St Catherine

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the death of 24-year-old Duwanna Gyles, otherwise called 'Brandon', who was fatally shot by lawmen in Ewarton, St Catherine, on Wednesday.

Gayles is from of Innswood Village, Spanish Town, in the parish.

A police team was reportedly on operation in Tucker Road, about 7:40 a.m., when the deceased engaged the police in an armed confrontation. Gyles was shot and injured.

The police say a Smith and Wesson pistol affixed with a magazine containing two rounds of nine-millimetre ammunition was seized from him.

He was taken to the Linstead Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

- Rasbert Turner

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