Haughton

Dionne Rose, Staff Reporter

The police are close to making a breakthrough on two of the four unsolved murders of the policemen who were gun down since the start of the year.

According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of crime, Denver Frater, three of the murders have been solved with the police close to cracking two of the others.

Eight police officers have been killed since January with the latest murder being Constable Michael Haughton who was allegedly cut down by a gunman's bullet on Payne Avenue, Kingston 11, while on foot patrol in the area last Sunday night.

The other police officers to have been killed are Sergeant Huan Genus, Constable Ralston Ebanks, Special Corporal Charles Gordon, District Constable Luke Rhodes, Corporal Scarlett Biggs, Detective Corporal Dave Daley and Corporal Richard Alexander.

Yesterday, ACP Frater said in the case of Corporal Dave Daley of the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, who was killed in February while trying to resolve an argument between two men in Duhaney Park, one of the men who shot him was fatally shot while the other gave himself up.

Meanwhile, Corporal Charles Gordon of the Island Special Constabulary Force who was shot on January 5 while issuing a ticket to a motorist and succumbed to his injuries days later, Christopher 'Cheese Trix' Williams who was implicated in the murder was killed.

District Constable Luke Rhodes of the Mount Salem Police Station in St. James, who was shot on January 23 while on St. James Street in the parish, one of his murders was fatally shot.

Wrap-up soon

While declining to say which of the other four cases was close to being solved, a spokesperson from the Constabulary Commu-nication Network said the police would be wrapping up two of the cases very soon.

The four unsolved cases include Constable Ralston Ebanks who was killed on January 2, at 5:15 p.m., while driving his private motor vehicle along the Braeton main road in St. Catherine with his sister and two children. On reaching the stop light, a vehicle pulled alongside his car and the occupants opened fire killing him on the spot.

Sergeant Genus who was stationed at the Clarkston Police Station was shot and killed with his daughter Shari Genus, a former TVJ reporter, on January 2 at about 9:30 p.m.

He was on his way home with his daughter aboard when he was ambushed by gunmen who shot and killed him and his daughter.

The other two cases include Corporal Scarlett Biggs of the Kingston Central Police Station who was shot at his gate while conversing with another man.

Meanwhile, Corporal Richard Alexander of the Hunts Bay Police Station was murdered in March. His body was found in a gully at Jono Crescent in May Pen with stab and gunshot wounds.