More charged with cop killings

Police Investigators have charged two more men with the killing of the two policemen on Mountain View Avenue in eastern Kingston on the eve of the May 24 incursion into Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston to capture alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

Thirty-year-old Oswald Kemp, otherwise called 'Frass', and 22-year-old Wayne Brown, known on the streets as 'Mark' or 'Crawb-up', join 30-year-old Dwayne 'Stamma' Forbes who was previously charged with the double murder.

The three, who are also facing six counts of shooting with intent, are slated to appear before the Gun Court next week.

They were held following intensive investigations into the fatal shooting of police sergeant Wayne Henriques and constable Jason Davis who were ambushed and killed by gunmen who had launched a deadly attack on members of the police force on May 23.

It was reported that in the early hours of Sunday, May 23, Sergeant Henriques and Constable Davis were part of a police team which responded to reports of heavily armed men firing at motorists in the Mountain View Avenue area.

Ambushed

When they reached the vicinity of the Excelsior High School, the policemen were ambushed by armed thugs who opened fire, killing Henriques and Davis.

Six other members of the police party were shot in the incident as the gunmen kept them pinned down for hours.

The criminals made their escape in the section of Mountain View Avenue known as Back Bush.

Four days later, police, in search of the gunmen, fatally shot three men in Back Bush, in a reported shoot-out.

The police alleged that two illegal firearms were taken from the men but the official report was challenged by residents who claimed the men were killed in cold blood.

That shooting is the subject of a probe by the Bureau of Special Investigations.