‘BERRITTA’ CHARGED AFTER 2024 CLARENDON SHOOTING
A second man has been slapped with Wounding with Intent (2 counts), Possession of Prohibited Weapon, Unauthorized Possession of Ammunition and Using Prohibited Weapon to Commit a Felony charges following the shooting of a police officer and another man along Inverness Drive, Sandy Bay, Clarendon, on Friday, July 26, 2024.
Charged is 21-year-old labourer Dontae Taylor, otherwise known as ‘Berrita’ and ‘Six, also of Inverness Drive.
Reports from the May Pen Police are that at about 8:30 p.m., a policeman at an event in the community heard that a man was shot nearby and tried to render assistance. While providing assistance, he was challenged by gunmen who later fled the scene on foot. After the shooting subsided, it was discovered that the policeman was shot. He and the man who was attacked earlier were assisted to the hospital, where they were treated.
Following an investigation into the matter, Taylor’s co-accused, 27-year-old deliveryman Kirk Messam of the same community, turned himself in to the police on Friday, August 2, and was charged. Taylor was apprehended in his community on Sunday, July 6. The charges were laid against him on Wednesday, July 8, after a question and session.
He is scheduled to appear in the May Pen Parish Court on Monday, July 14.
