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 instructed a information convention on Wednesday that regulation enforcement officers had been monitoring the unidentified man for a while. Efforts are actually underway to take him into custody.
“Now we have recognized the person. It’s anyone who has been on our radar earlier than, and efforts are actually being made to take him into custody. The investigation is properly superior,” he mentioned.
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, mentioned, “Holness, yuh assume you’ll be able to cease mass killing? Everyone inna Clarendon in the past lifeless by subsequent week. A you and yuh spouse subsequent yuh likkle idiot”.
Following the killings on Sunday, Prime Minister Holness mentioned that the federal government “will use this as the chance to cope with the gangs as soon as and for all.”
Gonsalves additionally dedicated that “everybody concerned on this might be delivered to justice in whichever type the justice is visited upon them.”
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