One of the three men who engaged the police in a shootout at the Trafalgar Road/Hope Road intersection in St. Andrew on Monday escaped.
The police believe he was shot several times during the gun battle.
Dennis Brooks, Senior Communication Strategist for the Jamaica Constabulary Force, says the man who was seen on the ground in a video, escaped in a truck.
"You would imagine that in a hail of bullets, many thing were happening at the same time... He was on the ground, he may have been initially thought to have been deceased. He somehow span from the ground and escaped in a vehicle that was driving past, a flatbed, small truck, he jumped into the back of it and he escaped."
Mr. Brooks said the police are "reviewing footage and using other technology trying to ascertain which direction that vehicle might have travelled" and are "monitoring other places he might end up...to try to apprehend him."
Two other assailants died following the shootout. One of them, who was injured, had run from the vehicle unto an apartment complex but was apprehended.
Police say he later succumbed to his injured at hospital.
The driver of the vehicle was shot and also died.
More Jamaica Eye investment needed
Security Consultant Robert Finzi-Smith said Monday's incident highlights the need for more investment in the camera surveillance systems under Jamaica Eye.
The police said Jamaica Eye assisted them in locating the men shortly after they were involved in the murder of a businessman on Old Hope Road.
"We need to concentrate on things like facial recognition software, licence plate recognition software to enhance what is going on. And there very well may be parts of it. But in security at this level, not everything good fi eat, goo fi talk," he suggested.
He was speaking Tuesday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106.
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