KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Police say they’ve recognized a person, whom they believed recorded himself threatening the lives of Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his spouse.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey advised a information convention on Wednesday that legislation enforcement officers had been monitoring the unidentified man for a while, and efforts are actually underway to take him into custody.
“We have now recognized the person. It’s someone who has been on our radar earlier than, and efforts are actually being made to take him into custody. The investigation is nicely superior,” he stated.
In a video posted on social media following final Sunday’s killing of eight individuals in Clarendon, south of Heer, the person, utilizing derogatory phrases and expletives, stated, “Holness, yuh assume you’ll be able to cease mass killing? All people inna Clarendon in the past useless by subsequent week. A you and yuh spouse subsequent yuh likkle idiot”.
Following the killings on Sunday, Prime Minister Holness stated that the federal government “will use this as the chance to take care of the gangs as soon as and for all.”
Gonsalves additionally dedicated that “everybody concerned on this might be dropped at justice in whichever kind the justice is visited upon them.”
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