Litchmore was reportedly shot and killed on Frederick Avenue. According to police reports, a police team saw Litchmore and another man walking along a gully towards Markland Drive in the Kingston 8 area. The police reportedly stopped their vehicle, and the men allegedly pointed guns at them. The man who was walking with Litchmore is alleged to have fired two shots at the police team, and then he reportedly ran towards the direction from which he came along the gully. The police returned fire and Litchmore was hit. He was taken to the University Hospital of the West Indies where he died while undergoing treatment.

Residents of the area have however refuted the police’s version of the killing. They allege that Litchmore was walking along the gully peeling an orange, when he was accosted by the police officers travelling in a motor car. The police reportedly told him to put his hands in the air, and it is said that after Litchmore did as he was requested, a policeman shot him three times in the stomach.

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into the incident, and is urging anyone with information that can help with its investigation to call its office.

Corporal Reid is contending that his constitutional rights have been breached, and that the INDECOM Act did not confer on Williams, the power to arrest or charge anyone for any criminal offence. Williams reportedly had Reid arrested and taken before the Courts on the murder charge, after complaining that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was taking too long to make a ruling on the matter.

Reid claims that the actions taken against him were arbitrary and unreasonable, and were based on no law, regulation, rule, order, or lawfully established policy. He says they were repugnant to the procedures and guidelines set out in the Police Service Regulations 1961. He states further that they violate his legitimate expectation to a ruling from the DPP whether he should be arrested and/or charged for murder. He describes the actions taken against him as a violation of his constitutional rights. He is thus seeking a number of declarations from the Judicial Review Court, as outlined in this Gleaner article.

Corporal Malica Reid of the Mobile Reserves in Kingston, has been charged with the controversial November 4, 2010 shooting death of Negril businessman, Fredrick ‘Mickey’ Hill. Corporal Reid, who was pointed out in an identification parade, was arrested and subsequently charged with the shooting death of Hill by investigators from Indecom at the Savanna-la-Mar Police Station.

He appeared before the Savanna-la-Mar Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and was remanded in custody, and ordered to return on March 1.

According to INDECOM’s Commissioner, Terrence Williams, “The investigators, with the assistance of the BSI (Bureau of Special Investigations) have been working tirelessly on the cases that have been taken over by Indecom. Significant progress has been made with other cases and it is our hope that we will be laying more charges in fatal shooting incidents in short order.”

Williams said that the Hill shooting incident caused much public outrage both locally and internationally, and that he hoped this development will serve as a sign that INDECOM is committed to holding members of the Security Forces or other agents of the State who abuse the rights of Jamaican citizens accountable for their actions.

Hill was fatally shot by a group of policemen on the Norman Manley Boulevard in Negril, Westmoreland. He was reportedly coming from a grocery store, and shot by the police after they had searched a bag in which he had only groceries. Three other men were arrested during the incident, and the police claimed to have recovered an illegal firearm.

Berry, along with his wife, was involved in an altercation with police in 2006, an incident which was caught on camera and caused outrage because of how he was treated by the police. Last night, Berry was shot dead by the police on Dumbarton Avenue in St. Andrew yesterday. The police’s Constabulary Communication Network issued a release stating that investigators from the Bureau of Special Investigations are currently conducting a probe into the matter. Some persons meanwhile, are alleging that Berry was killed in cold blood, and in full view of his wife and two daughters.

Some reports have indicated that Berry along with his wife and two daughters were driving in Half-Way-Tree, when a transport officer started to follow him. It is alleged that on reaching Dumbarton Avenue, a vehicle carrying Transport Authority staff and police rammed his car in an effort to stop him. During an ensuing argument Berry was reportedly shot in the stomach and died.

The Editor, Sir

I read in Thursday’s Gleaner, with more than a little concern, that a team of police investigators is now trying to locate the person who videotaped last week’s shooting of a man by lawmen in Buckfield, St Ann, as well as the cellular phone he used to capture the controversial images … more

The video, which is featured below (WARNING, IT IS GRAPHIC), was filmed on Thursday (July 29) by a citizen using a camera phone. It shows Ian ‘Ching Sing’ Lloyd, who had allegedly stabbed and killed a woman earlier that day and had injured several other persons, writhing on the ground as he was being viciously beaten with a baton by a uniformed policeman. Later in the video, a plain clothes policeman (with pistol in hand) is seen standing in front of Lloyd who makes a weak attempt to throw a stone at the policeman. The policeman then fires a single shot at Lloyd, who died later at hospital.

Ironically, the police’s Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) had earlier reported that Lloyd was shot dead after he attacked members of a police party. According to the CCN, the police were accosting Lloyd at the woman’s home when he hurled stones injuring four cops.

Residents however are claiming that there was no shoot out, and that the police simply drove up, blocked the motor vehicle that the men were in, and opened fire on them. They allege that the police fired, even as the men begged for mercy.

The police’s Bureau of Special Investigations has reportedly been called in to investigate the matter.

Eldon Johnson, a 28 year old dancer of Steer Town, was killed by the off-duty cop who was reportedly attempting to quell a disturbance at the game. The game had ended prematurely when a fight broke out between spectators and players from Steer Town, and two men were shot when the policeman intervened and attempted to fire warning shots.

Unconfirmed reports indicate that the police may have fired his weapon before it was fully elevated in the air, and that the men were shot accidentally. The policeman has since been interdicted.

The protests started from Tuesday night, when residents blocked the main road to the community for several hours. Several buildings were also set on fire, and police personnel were reportedly pelted with stones as they tried to clear the roadblocks. A fire truck from the Ocho Rios fire station was also dmaaged. Yesterday morning, the residents again set up several roadblocks, and took their protests to the Drax Hall main road. They were however prevented from blocking this main road, by a strong contingent of police.