BY FABIAN LEDGISTER, Staff Reporter
TRAGEDY ONCE AGAIN struck the ranks of the Spanish Town police force, yesterday morning, as a police officer was executed at a street dance in De La Vega City.
Corporal Lincoln Parker, 33, was of the anti-crime division and was temporarily assigned to the Greater Portmore Police Station.
Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network are that at about 3:30 a.m., the officer was among patrons at a street dance in the area, when a barrage of explosions was heard and it was later discovered that he had been shot dead. The police were summoned and the body removed to the morgue for post-mortem.
It was not ascertained how many times the police had been shot, but 20 9mm spent shells were recovered by the police at the scene.
The officer who was reportedly on duty when he came under attack is fondly remembered by members of the anti-crime division, Portmore police, and members of the Spanish Town police.
"He was one of our own, and a good cop ... We can only conduct investigations to the best of our abilities to have the perpetrators brought to justice," said Detective Inspector Gladston Ellis, head of the St. Catherine North Homicide Unit.
The St. Catherine North Homicide Unit will be investigating the matter.
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