Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) Di­rec­tor David West says the au­thor­i­ty suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its role in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the 2018 fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of five men in Laven­tille, fol­low­ing a High Court rul­ing that or­dered the State to pay their fam­i­lies more than $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The case con­cerns the deaths of Mechack Dou­glas, Sha­keem Fran­cois, Shaun­dell St Clair, Nicholas Bark­er and Kudiem Phillip, who were shot near Up­per Whar­ton Street, Trou Macaque Road, Laven­tille on Oc­to­ber 25, 2018.

In a re­cent judg­ment, High Court Judge Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar up­held claims of as­sault and bat­tery and mis­fea­sance in pub­lic of­fice against the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, re­ject­ing the State’s claim that the men died in a shoot-out with po­lice.