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Within a 24-hour period, teams from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) were notified and responded to investigate the circumstances of five separate police incidents, across four parishes.
These incidents included two quadruple fatal shootings and three single fatal shootings, resulting in the death of 11 men. These five recent incidents, increase the total deaths from fatal shootings for the month of June to 14 persons shot and killed by the security forces. This year, 153 persons have been shot and killed by the security forces, compared to 145 for the corresponding period in 2025. Six of the seven men shot and killed on Tuesday have not been officially identified.
Four of them were involved in an incident in Bog Walk, St Catherine, one in the vicinity of GC Foster College, also in St Catherine, and the other in Land Lease, Papine, St Andrew. The only identified deceased is Orlando Nembhard, who was killed during an incident in Good Hope, Kellits, Clarendon. Three of the deceased men shot and killed at Retirement in St James Wednesday, have been identified, while one remains unidentified. Those identified are: 55-year-old Bryan Fairclough; 27-year-old Brian Fairclough; and 26-year-old Jahmar Ashman.
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