Hundreds of residents who converged on the Morant Bay Police Station in St. Thomas yesterday to get a glimps of the suspect held in the brutal murder of five family members in the parish on Sunday. - NORMAN GRINDLEY
ANGRY RESIDENTS CONVERGED on the Morant Bay Police Station in St. Thomas, yesterday, demanding that police release the suspect held in connection with Sunday's brutal slaying of three young children and two women in the parish. The crowd was ready and willing to mete out its own form of justice and shouted, "Let him go, gi wi him mek wi kill im, him too wicked, a him kill di people dem."
The victims were identified as Patrice Martin-McCool, Sean Chin, 8, Marshall George McCool, 2, Jesse O'Gilvie, 9, and a 40-year-old woman, Terry-Ann Mohammed. They are all from Duhaney Pen in the parish.
The man was taken to the Morant Bay Police Station after being picked up in Harbour View, St. Andrew. He reportedly told police that he did not show up in the parish yesterday because he feared he would be killed by police or angry residents.
The man has not been charged and told police that he left his spouse, Terry-Ann, at her business place in Morant Bay and left the parish. Six-year-old Jahad George McCool, is still missing and the man held claims to have no knowledge of her whereabouts. The police also told THE STAR that they had been receiving several reports of bodies being discovered all over the parish but these turned out to be false.
The large crowd grew uncontrollable and the police were forced to seal both entrances to the police station. To avoid causing further commotion and chaos and because residents formed a human barricade through most of the town, the police were forced to take the suspect to Kingston via Portland and St. Mary.
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