A GUNMAN was yesterday disarmed and chopped to death by a woman with the assistance of her six children when he broke into their house in Alston, Clarendon.
According to Sergeant Rovan Salmon, of the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), about 2:00 a.m. yesterday, the man identified as 47-year-old Delroy Edwards also of Alston district went to the house of the woman and her children.
The CCN said Edwards entered the house by forcing open a window. He pulled a weapon from his waist band and pointed it at one of the occupants.
The weapon, however, failed to fire and in the process of being disarmed by family members, he received several wounds.
The police were summoned and upon their arrival they seized a Colt .45 pistol with seven rounds of ammunition, a dagger, two crowbars, a sling shot and two lengths of rope.
Edwards was taken to the Percy Junor hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to reports reaching The Gleaner, Edwards was only recently released from prison.
