The following story seems fantastic, so much so that we publish it with the greatest of caution. Nevertheless, I will not be the judge as to the veracity of the story, sufficing to say we will await the outcome of the investigations like everyone else.
I wish to reiterate that we have not independently verified the veracity of these allegations and, as such do not wish to point fingers at anyone.
Notwithstanding, it is imperative that as it pertains to these allegations, it behooves the JCF leadership to investigate this incident with the greatest of professionalism and alacrity and make a full report to the Jamaican people as the investigations progress. Anything short of the foregone will further erode whatever little trust the people have remaining in the agency.
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Murder and attempted murder.
Forty-Nine (49) years old Phillip Wallace, Tiler of 3 Green Glide Close Red Hills Road St. Andrews, was shot and killed in front of a bar along Red Hills Road in Saint Andrew on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at about 10:41 am.
Monique Ellis, 29 years old Bar Owner of the same address as the deceased, narrowly escaped death in the same incident.
According to the police, Monique Ellis was inside the bar while mister Wallace was under a shed outside talking on his cellular phone. A White Toyota Axio motor vehicle pulled up, and three men alighted from the vehicle armed with handguns and opened gunfire at Mister Wallace. Wallace suffered gunshot wounds all over his body.
The men also fired several shots at Miss Ellis before escaping. Ms. Ellis reportedly ran out through the back door and managed to escape unhurt onto nearby premises.
Monique Ellis alleged to responding officers that the three men who murdered mister Wallace and attempted to kill her were police officers from the Constant Spring Police Station who arrested and charged mister Wallace on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at about 6:00 pm during a raid. She also reported that she gave them fifteen thousand dollars as they requested a hundred and fifty thousand not to take the case to court.
Ellis told police that Wallace, who is her common-law husband, reported the matter to Inspector Ewan Campbell of the Constant Spring Police. Inspector Campbell is reportedly the officer who led the operation. Ellis said Wallace told Inspector Campbell that a member from his team took fifteen thousand dollars from her to drop the case.
She said the Inspector called a Corporal who allegedly received the money and asked him about it.
Ellis said that while Wallace was being processed, an officer whom she identified as Dennis asked him for an additional fifteen thousand dollars.
She said her common-law husband refused because he was already written up and charged for an offense.
She said she left the Constant Spring Police Station at about 11:41 am, and thereafter she received a telephone call from a male person, telephone number 876−880−0059. The male identified himself as Dennis and asked her about the money. She said Dennis requested $150,000.00″.