The China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) compound at Plantation Heights
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Deputy Superintendent Coleridge Minto, head of Operations for the St. Andrew South Police, and JAPS President Teddylee Gray
By Clinton McGregor
Senior detectives from the Major Investigations Division have launched a manhunt for gunmen who carried out a deadly attack on the compound of the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) at Plantation Heights, off Mandela Highway, leaving two security guards dead.
The guards, 22-year-old Brandon Triston Small, employed to GYD Security Company, and Lincoln Royal of Browns Hall, St. Catherine, were killed when heavily armed men invaded the complex on Sunday night.
Deputy Superintendent Coleridge Minto, head of Operations for the St. Andrew South Police, said the guard is in good physical condition, but in a state of shock.
Radio Jamaica News on Monday afternoon obtained further details on the deadly attack.
According to the police, about 10:30 Sunday night, a grey station wagon motor vehicle drove up to the entrance of the CHEC compound where they were let in by Mr. Royal, who was listed as an armed guard.
Four masked men, armed with handguns, alighted the vehicle and made their way over to a section of the compound where Mr. Small was seated under a gazebo.
Several explosions were heard shortly afterwards.
The police were summoned and, on their arrival, Mr. Small was found lying on the ground in a pool of blood outside the gazebo.
He was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Further checks of the compound revealed the body of Mr. Royal in the trunk of a car that is said to belong to him.
According to the police report, five security guards were working on the compound at different posts at the time of the incident, two of them designated armed guards.
All the other guards had been accounted for except the one who escaped into nearby bushes.
The guards are expected to be interviewed by detectives from the Major Investigations Division.
'Be vigilant'
The Jamaica Association for Private Security (JAPS) has urged the police to find the killers of the two security guards.
Teddylee Gray, president of the association, said he is happy the other guard has been found alive.
He begged security guards to "be vigilant" over the Christmas holidays, especially because they are the first line of defence in the event of a criminal attack.
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