Man fatally shot in alleged shootout with police in Spanish Town

The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police during an alleged shootout in Spanish Town, St Catherine.

Dead is 38-year-old Anthony Kemar Richards, otherwise called 'Ganja', of March Pen Road in Spanish Town.

Reports are that about 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, a police party conducted a cordoned and search operation in March Road area.

Upon entering a premises, Richards, who was reportedly armed with a handgun, fired at the police.

The fire was returned.

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He was shot and injured and, according to the police, a nine millimetre pistol affixed with a magazine containing one round of ammunition was seized from him.

He was assisted to  the  Spanish  Town  Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

- Rasbert Turner