Manner of police search upsets residents

Hours after Jakobi Grannum was shot and killed in a police-involved shooting, some residents of Odessa McClean Drive, My Lord’s Hill, St Michael questioned the actions of lawmen on Friday night.

Enveloped in anger and sorrow, some the neighbours, friends and families of the 22-year-old deceased shopkeeper were not happy with the way police converged on the area while conducting a search warrant of a shop.

Acting communications and public affairs officer at the Barbados Police Service, Sargeant Liesl Gabriel, told the Sunday Sun yesterday that the warrant for the shop was issued for the search of illegal firearms.

She reported that one firearm was recovered at the scene, but it was not revealed if the retrieved weapon had been discharged.

Grazed

Some residents in their reports to this newspaper, said a bullet grazed 19-year-old Tyreke Best on his cheek, while Kerry Grannum, the sister of the deceased, was grazed and wounded in her leg. Both showed their wounds during the interview yesterday.

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