Cutlass-wielding man shot dead by police in Hindustan

KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

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A man was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion at a house in Hin­dus­tan yes­ter­day, af­ter he al­leged­ly threat­ened of­fi­cers with a cut­lass.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, an act­ing cor­po­ral and two po­lice con­sta­bles went to a house along Naggee Road at about 10.15 am to lo­cate and de­tain Tim­mon Fran­cois in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion which oc­curred around 1 pm on Sat­ur­day along 5th Com­pa­ny Road, In­di­an Walk.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cers found the front door open and re­peat­ed­ly an­nounced their pres­ence by shout­ing, “Po­lice! Po­lice!”

A po­lice re­port stat­ed that the act­ing cor­po­ral saw a man emerge from a room on the right side of the house wear­ing blue box­er shorts and hold­ing a cut­lass in his right hand.

The re­port al­leged that the man shout­ed at the of­fi­cers to leave the prop­er­ty and bran­dished the cut­lass in a threat­en­ing man­ner.

Po­lice said the act­ing cor­po­ral again iden­ti­fied him­self and the of­fi­cers and or­dered the man to drop the weapon. How­ev­er, the man al­leged­ly ad­vanced to­ward them while still armed and shout­ing, “I don’t f*****g care bout al­lyuh po­lice!”

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the act­ing cor­po­ral and one of the con­sta­bles then drew their ser­vice pis­tols and fired sev­er­al rounds in an ef­fort to stop and neu­tralise the threat.

The man fell in­side the house and of­fi­cers se­cured the scene be­fore dis­cov­er­ing he had sus­tained gun­shot wounds. He was tak­en to hos­pi­tal, where a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer pro­nounced him dead.

Po­lice lat­er ob­tained a med­ical re­port on Fran­cois. In­ves­ti­ga­tions and oth­er pro­ce­dur­al en­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.