OCHO RIOS, St. Ann:
COMMISSIONER OF Police Lucius Thomas is appealing to people of De la Vega City in Spanish Town, who witnessed the recent brutal gun slaying of Police Corporal Lincoln Parker, not to withhold evidence from the police.
Corporal Parker was shot 26 times in the De la Vega City community on June 4 while attending a dance in an area where he is well known.
In expressing outrage over the unwillingness of eyewitnesses to come forward with statements to the police two weeks after the killing, he said Corporal Parker was murdered in a well-lit public area where several people were present.
"You know what really hurts, what is really depressing for me, since Corporal Parker was brutally slain, no one has come forward to give any information. This is sad and demoralising," he lamented.
The Police Commissioner was guest speaker at the annual dinner meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay which was held at the Runaway Bay HEART Hotel in St. Ann on Tuesday night.
He said that fighting crime cannot be left to the police alone, but that while members of the public who have been pressuring the police to get crime under control, they themselves are failing to play their part when they decide to withhold valuable information from the police.
- Devon Evans
