RELATIVES of Latoya Monte, the 34-year-old woman who was fatally shot during an alleged confrontation with the police moments after 6:00 pm on Monday in the Kingston 10 area, are insisting that she was murdered, contrary to information released by the constabulary.
The police, in a tersely worded statement issued yesterday, said Monte, of Maxfield Avenue in Kingston “was fatally shot during a confrontation with the police at about 6:50 pm on Monday, June 29 in East Bloomsbury Road, Kingston 10”. The statement said a chrome and black Lugar CZ75B pistol, with eight 9mm rounds, was seized during the incident. Police said the matter has been reported to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) and the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau of the constabulary.
Distressed relatives of the deceased woman, whom they yesterday described as a nice, normal, young, single woman who was enjoying her life and would not harm a fly, said the police were concealing what truly took place and have accused them of being secretive and reluctant to answer their queries or speak with them. They said the shocking news of the death of the “cherished” sister and daughter came to them in the dead of night hours after it took place.
One of the deceased’s brothers, Kevin Monte, told the Jamaica Observer that: “When I went and identified the body last night I was told by the police sergeant that it was sometime around 2:30 in the afternoon [that there was] an altercation between my sister and a taxi driver on Hagley Park Road. The passenger in her vehicle was a male. The passenger, they said, pulled a gun on the taxi driver; the taxi driver drove away, made a phone call to the police that someone pulled a gun on him and gave them the licence plate and… ray ray…” Monte recounted.
“So the police drove through the area [Richmond Park and Hagley Park] and in the evening part them buck up the vehicle, pull over the driver, and dem seh she back a gun pon dem and dem shoot har, kill har. Them claim seh dem have di gun,” he told the Observer. He said, however, he was later told that his sister had exited her vehicle and that at the time of the fatal incident she was alone.
“The male wasn’t there, she alone was there in the evening. They are saying she pull a gun on them. Me need to see the police report,” he said.
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“She’s my younger sister, nobody knows yet what happened, and we are trying to speak to the police but they keep telling us they will call us back and nothing. My mom is distressed, it is her only daughter, she has nuff sons but that’s her only daughter. The story we are getting it sounds like murder to us,” said another brother, Leon.
“My sister was a British citizen with a Jamaican father, she lived here and Jamaica for the last three years. She was a nice, normal girl and she was shot and killed by the police in Jamaica and that doesn’t make sense to us here,” he said.
Meanwhile, INDECOM, in a statement issued to the media late yesterday afternoon, said the allegations are that the deceased was to be the subject of a personal search and she requested privacy for that search to be conducted, which was agreed upon. During that search, it is reported that the deceased produced a firearm which resulted in a shooting incident. A chrome and black 9mm luger was allegedly recovered from the scene.
INDECOM has appealed to people who may have witnessed the incident to contact its offices and provide any information, including photos or video footage that they may have. It said people with information about the incident are being asked to call INDECOM at (876) 968-8875, (876) 968-1932 or message the agency on WhatsApp at 876-553-5555.
It further said the officers involved will be required to provide statements to the commission and attend its offices for interviews. The service weapons and the alleged recovered firearm were processed, boxed, and sealed for testing at the government’s laboratory.
The commission also said it will continue to liaise with the family on the investigative process and provide updates as necessary.
Wonder if bounty killer & Spice Will protest
Waiting to hear from the light skinned sympathizers e.g she’s such a pretty girl….but if wasnt light skinned you’d hear “she black and ugly ee man…she really look like a gun man#RIP YOUNG LADY
This is a clear overreach on ur part cuz by right one must deal with each case n circumstances on its own merits!!Plus in a time of grief and great loss of life,ur speculation and generalization is unwarranted yooo ..time and place zeen smh.
Brotha Ramjam you can also do better than spew uncalled for insensitive bullcrap assumptions that seek to question the integrity and character of the deceased who is unknown to you!
U dam right. DEM RASS CLAAT WHITE GAL…GWAN LIKE DEM BAD WHEN. BLACK MAN DEH WID DEM THE MAN DEM CANT EVEN TALK TO BLACK WOMAN
she isnt white she just lightskinned
Where is SPICE and BOUNTY KILLAH where are you guys to lead a march in Jamaica
You don’t know her situation why she’s back home. Don’t judge her until you walk in her shoe.
I’m American citizen when winter comes,I want to
go to the islands. Some people fall in love and never go back home. Some just go back and forth.Who is you to tell someone where to live?
HEAR YAH. SHE. AN TAXIMAN GOT INTO IT. (BET ITS FAV GO SUCK U MUMA) SHE A DRIVE. THE RAV 4..WID THE SCRUB. BESIDE HER HIM PULL GUN….PON TAXIMAN…..DEM CALL POLICE…HIM BLOOD CLAAT
DISAPPEAR. GONE LEF HER….Y HIM NEVER STAY.
Re: Ramjam on July 2 @ 12:56PM
You don’t know her situation why she’s back home. Don’t judge her until you walk in her shoe.
I’m American citizen when winter comes,I want to
go to the islands. Some people fall in love and never go back home. Some just go back and forth.Who is you to tell someone where to live?
Basically, Rammy is saying only an idiot would return to Jamaica if they got a chance to get out. I don’t know if he means only the ones who return to live in ghetto communities or the entire collective.
His views are extremely harsh. Jamaica is not hell. Some communities are indeed hellish to live in, but there are many wonderful places still.
ASK SOMEONE U CAN TRUST THE NICE PLACES ARE BECOMING SCARCER AN SCARCER. AS SOON AS U RENT SOMEONE. NEFARIOUS HE BRINGS. A FRIEND…HIS FRIEND BRINGS ANOTHER AS WE SAW. IN HORIZON PARK
AND WASHINGTON GARDENS AND THEY ARE THE ONES. WHO CAN PAY THE BIG RENT
BUTT PARENTS HEART BLEED. WHEN DAUGHTERS COME MARRIED DUTTY JANKRO DEPORTED FROM SOME OTHER COUNTRY AN NO TEL THE EEDIAT FARRINAS…WHO GLAD FI.MAN
“British Citizen!” should have been in the UK making use of the status! wonder if she knew how many Jamaicans yearn for that status to make use of it in a positive way, especially the ones who are in limbo who were even born there! instead? come to Jamaica come live and settle among rif-rafs and dregs! and there are plenty others on the island! British, US Canadian EU residents or citizens and just wasting their statuses! might as well give it to the people who desperately need it and would gladly utilize it progressive and productively! :thumbup
Want wanty cant get it…….we know the rest sad though. RIP dear.
Why discriminate against you own people so what if she was in ja when the white people come here and stay you dont have a pfoblem thats why them will always think them entitled because we fight and criticize each other too much ps you can go yo the embassy too no one is stopping you
WHY DI BWOY RUN LEF HER.. NOO JAMAICAN POLICE NAW SHOOT NO WHITE PERSON SO. EASY….HER FAMILY NO KNO NUTTEN..THINK DEM DAUGHTER A SAINT. IF U FVK USELF…WID POLICE A JA YA GO GET IT…..POLICE NO SHOOT WOMAN SO EASY
Google her name, she was a known drug dealer in the streets in the UK. She was not afraid of the law, the court report said she assaulted a cop when they tried to take her phone from her… And she came to yard and still get caught up in bad company
https://bloomsburyassociation.org.uk/news/news2005090353240/
Mi blood claat…same fckin ting deh….A DEM GAL SOME MAN LOVE…CRIMINAL TO DI BONE
She a dam criminal carless gal a no england police dis.. mi feel she dip up UNDA the police. .an get SHEG. A bad gal dat wuss Jamaican blood in her..ppl who Kno her not surprised