Twenty-one-year-old Chakiulle Mc Coy was shot several times about the head and body, an autopsy report said yesterday. Mc Coy was killed by police from the North Eastern Division Task Force on Thursday morning during a reported shootout. After his killing, angry residents of Mon Repos Road, Morvant, where the father of one lived and died, blocked part of the road and later blocked off part of the Lady Young Road, Morvant, demanding justice for his death.
Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre after yesterday’s autopsy, Mc Coy’s mother, Marsha Mc Coy, said the report did not specify whether her son was shot in the back or how many times he had been shot. She said her son’s body had to be X-rayed, as some of the bullets had not left exit wounds.
She said just because police were given a badge did not mean they could cover up her son’s death, and called for a full investigation, saying she planned to make an official complaint to the Police Complaints Authority. She said MP for the area Donna Cox had contacted her and expressed condolences.
The police version
Around 10.45 am Thursday, North Eastern Division Task Force police responded to a report that three armed men were in a track off Mon Repos Road, Morvant, which leads to Petunia Avenue. They said they received information that the men were making their way to the home of Michelle Holder, whose sons—Jadel Holder, nine, and Jamal Braithwaite, 15—were shot dead there on Sunday.
At the time the alleged assassination plot against Holder was to be carried out, Minister in the Ministry of the People Vernella Alleyne-Toppin was visiting the family. Police said when they approached the three men they were fired upon and returned fire, killing Mc Coy. The other two men escaped.
Neighbours say
Residents said the police shot Mc Coy while he was at work near a nearby parlour, the Bango Snackette, cutting steel for a box drain. The residents said the alley which leads to Petunia Avenue was nowhere near where he was killed.