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shot while in MPD 03 about 10.45 p.m. Two other police officers were also being
treated for gunshot injuries at Mountain View Avenue. Supt Pinnock
subsequently learnt that Cpl. Dawkins and Cons. Reid had been rescued by
civilians in Nannyville.
4.27.
SSP McGregor and a team secured the Mountain View Avenue area
and recovered the weapons belonging to police personnel who had been shot.
MPD 03 was extensively damaged by gunfire. Eight police officers, including
Sgt. Henriques and Cons. Davis, were shot that night.
4.28.
Supt. Pinnock explained that the gunmen were shooting at the
police officers from behind a wall enclosing the football field. According to him
searches unearthed over 100 spent shells on the football field. The incident on
Mountain View Avenue took place near Back Bush in the Kingston Eastern
Division and Supt Pinnock said in his oral evidence that Intelligence revealed
that the shootings and activities “that night were directly related to Christopher
Coke and Tivoli Gardens”.
Shots Fired at Headquarters of the JDF
4.29.
Lt. Col. David Cummings gave evidence that just before midnight
on 23 May, he was in his office at Up Park Camp and he heard bullets being fired
at the Headquarters of the JDF. He described the firing as “ineffective” and said
that it came from the direction of Mountain View Avenue and Nannyville
Gardens. He turned off the lights after hearing the gunshots and the firing
ceased. No one was injured.
Shots fired at Harmon Barracks
4.30.
ACP Leon Rose testified that on Sunday, 23 May, about 2.30 p.m.,
Harmon Barracks were attacked. He said –