HANOVER, JAMAICA: Mother of policeman shot dead in Hanover wants her first born's name cleared...Constable K'Mar Beckford, 25, was shot dead by a police inspector.
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, April 26, 2015
THE mother of a policeman who was shot dead by a colleague wants his name cleared, as she is adamant that he is innocent of what he has been accused of.
Constable K'Mar Beckford, 25, was shot dead by a police inspector. Investigators were told that the off-duty Beckford had entered a bar in the seacoast town of Hopewell, Western Hanover, on the morning of April 4, and attempted to rob patrons at gunpoint.
The investigators were told that Beckford was shot dead in a firefight in which the inspector and a woman were injured.
Since the incident, which is being investigated by the Jamaica Constabulary Force, through the Inspectorate of the Constabulary, as well as the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), reports have surfaced that initial information regarding the unfolding of events may have been inaccurate.
High-ranking members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, who were reluctant to be identified because of the nature of the investigations, have told the Jamaica Observer that the initial report has been challenged, and eyewitnesses have been providing information that Beckford was not robbing the bar as was earlier reported.
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| Curious onlookers gather outside the bar of the fatal shooting in Hopewell, Hanover |
An INDECOM official, contacted by the Sunday Observer late Friday, also said that there were discrepancies in the reports that have been received so far, but also opted against giving this newspaper any additional information, saying that the investigations were "at a very, very delicate stage, and some things do not seem right".
The last part of that view is shared by Beckford's mother Lenorah Thomas, a guidance counsellor and educator by profession.
"He was not a rogue cop," Thomas insisted of her first born of three when the Sunday Observer spoke with her on Friday. more
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