Maraval man shot, killed by cops

A 24-year-old man was shot and killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with po­lice near a bar along Morne Co­co Road, Mar­aval, on Fri­day night, mak­ing the in­ci­dent the third po­lice-in­volved fa­tal shoot­ing with­in a 24-hour pe­ri­od.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the de­ceased as Kyle Hare­wood of Le Plat­te Vil­lage.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, around 10.47 pm on Fri­day, of­fi­cers were re­spond­ing to re­ports of a man dressed in dark cloth­ing who was said to be armed with a firearm in the vicin­i­ty of a bar.

Po­lice claimed they ob­served Hare­wood run­ning along a track near the bar while hold­ing what ap­peared to be a black, “L”-shaped met­al ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm.

Of­fi­cers said they or­dered him to stop, but he con­tin­ued run­ning and was chased in­to an un­fin­ished con­crete struc­ture, where he at­tempt­ed to hide.

Of­fi­cers claimed that Hare­wood lat­er point­ed the ob­ject in their di­rec­tion, caus­ing them to fear for their lives. Po­lice said of­fi­cers then opened fire on Hare­wood.

He was tak­en to the St James In­fir­mary, where he lat­er died while re­ceiv­ing med­ical treat­ment.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­port­ed that a firearm, along with am­mu­ni­tion, was re­cov­ered at the scene. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent are on­go­ing.

The shoot­ing oc­curred just hours af­ter two men were shot and killed ear­li­er on Fri­day dur­ing a po­lice sting op­er­a­tion in Mt Hope.

In that in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion en­coun­tered four men who at­tempt­ed to rob them while they posed as Face­book Mar­ket­place buy­ers. A third man was in­jured and tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, while a fourth sus­pect fled the scene.

—Ot­to Car­ring­ton