Plum Park residents accuse cops of indiscriminate shooting

Jun 02, 2013 News

Police yesterday arrested four young men in Plum Park, Sophia, after saying that they were behaving in a suspicious manner. But relatives and residents are claiming otherwise, saying that the police behaved in a dangerous manager, shooting indiscriminately.
According to the police, the arrest was made around 14:25hrs on Friday.
“As police ranks approached a group of men who were acting suspiciously at Plum Park, Sophia, one of them pulled out a firearm and discharged rounds in the direction of the ranks. The police returned fire and the man threw away the firearm and surrendered. No one was injured.”
However, residents of the area and persons claiming to be witnesses to the police’s operation had a different story to tell.
Prior to the release of the police statement, residents of the area, including the mothers of two of the arrested young men and eyewitnesses, visited Kaieteur News to express their concerns over the incident. One of the eyewitnesses claimed that around 13:00hrs, she was standing at her doorway when about five or six men dressed in civilian attire exited a yellow taxi with “big, big guns”, and started firing shots everywhere.
She added that residents were terrified, thinking that the men were on a rampage to create massacre.
“These men just jump out a yellow taxi with big, big guns, fire about two or three shots in the air, and then they start chasing them li’l boys in the area and shooting at everything. They just run in people yard just so and shooting everywhere. People did begging them to stop, because small children were playing in their yards and so,” the woman said.
The Plum Park area was reportedly surrounded by both the men who arrived in a taxi, and another group in a pickup truck. The residents maintained that there was no immediate evidence that the men were police officers.
The mother of one of the arrested teenagers told Kaieteur News that even if the police had some evidence against the boys, the approach by the police was ridiculous, and could have cost innocent people, including children, their lives.
The police statement said that the officers were able to retrieve an unlicenced .38 special revolver, the gun that was used to shoot at them. But one “eyewitness” said that she saw when one of the men “pull a silver gun out from his crotch” and placed it on the ground.
“The police tell we that one of the boys shot at them, but that’s a lie. Everybody did running for dem lives. I see one of the men pull out a gun from he pants crotch and put it on the ground. The boy who dem seh shoot at them, the boy hand ain’t good. He still recovering from a gunshot. He hand can’t even move properly. Somebody did rob he earlier this month and shoot he.”

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