KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Police say they have identified a man, whom they believed recorded himself threatening the lives of Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his wife.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey told a news conference on Wednesday that law enforcement officials had been tracking the unidentified man for some time, and efforts are now underway to take him into custody.
“We have identified the individual. It is somebody who has been on our radar before, and efforts are now being made to take him into custody. The investigation is well advanced,” he said.
In a video posted on social media following last Sunday’s killing of eight people in Clarendon, south of Heer, the man, using derogatory terms and expletives, said, “Holness, yuh think you can stop mass killing? Everybody inna Clarendon ago dead by next week. A you and yuh wife next yuh likkle fool”.
Following the killings on Sunday, Prime Minister Holness said that the government “will use this as the opportunity to deal with the gangs once and for all.”
Gonsalves also committed that “everyone involved in this will be brought to justice in whichever form the justice is visited upon them.”
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