BUSINESSWOMAN AMONG TWO CHARGED FOLLOWING DEADLY ATTACK ON POLICEMAN AND FAMILY
Detectives assigned to the Major Investigations Division (MID) have laid Murder, Wounding with Intent, Using a Prohibited Weapon to Commit a Felony, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Wounding with Intent and Conspiracy to Use a Prohibited Weapon to Commit a Felony charges against two persons in connection with a deadly gun attack on a policeman and his family along the Reading main road, Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday, August 09.
They are 38-year-old businesswoman Trafficia Malcolm-Demontagnac, otherwise called ‘Traff’, of Catherine Hall in St James and 23-year-old plumber Kadean Nathan of Bethel Town, Westmoreland.
The third accused, 24-year-old Orlando Thomas, a carpenter of Argyle Mount in Westmoreland, was fatally shot during a confrontation with the police on Wednesday, August 13.
The attack left 36-year-old Latoya Stephenson of West Village, St James, dead, and a policeman and child nursing gunshot injuries.
Reports are that at about 8:45 p.m., Stephenson and her family drove to the location to collect a key from Thomas. Nathan drove Thomas to the location, after which Stephenson exited her vehicle and retrieved the key. On her way back to her family’s vehicle, Thomas brandished a firearm and opened fire, hitting Stephenson, the policeman and the child. The trio were assisted to hospital, where the woman was pronounced dead while the others were admitted.
Following an investigation into the matter, Malcolm-Demontagnac was taken into custody on Wednesday, August 13, during an operation in Burnt Ground, Ramble, Hanover.
On Saturday, August 16, Nathan turned himself in to the police and was charged along with Malcolm-Demontagnac three days later after they both gave caution statements outlining their involvement in the incident.
A court date is being arranged for them.
