JAMAICA-CRIME – Cop arrested following the fatal shooting – probe also launched

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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing a fatal double shooting in the town of Frankfield in the southern parish of Clarendon on Saturday.

According to police reports, two men were fatally shot by a policeman, who has since been taken into custody.

The police constable was later arrested.

The deceased have been identified as cousins Jerome Smith and Clayton Pink, both of James Hill in Frankfield.

The Clarendon Police confirmed that the three men were at the Frankfield Town car park at a party when an altercation developed between the policeman and Pink.

It’s alleged that Pink threw a bottle that hit the constable in the face.

The policeman reportedly pulled his firearm and shot Pink; Smith, who was in the vicinity, was also hit.

Pink and Smith were pronounced dead at the hospital.

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