Dangriga Police Shoots ‘Boisterous’ Man

Joseph Myvett

Dangriga resident, Nelson Jackson is tonight recuperating from a gunshot wound he received on the right leg. Jackson was shot by a police officer on Tuesday. At this morning’s press briefing, ACP Joseph Myvett explained that Jackson was being boisterous in front of a local business establishment and officers were called in to calm him down. The police say that Jackson then made moves to pull something out of his waist and this prompted one of the responding cops to shoot Jackson on the right leg. 

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“On Tuesday night Dangriga police responded to a disturbance at a Chinese store where upon arrival one Nelson Jackson was observed behaving boisterously and as a result he was approached by officers in order to calm him down and remove him from the area. But he kept on behaving in that fashion. At some point during his confrontation with the officers, he made a motion to go towards his pants waist with his right hand and as a result an officer took out his ser ice firearm and fired one shot which caught him on the right upper leg. He is admitted at the Southern Regional Hospital in a stable condition.”

Reporter

“Did the offices find any kind of weapon on the gentleman?”

ACP Joseph Myevtt

“No, none was found when he was searched after the incident.”