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The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of one of two men who breached security protocols and entered the Brown's Town Police Station in an attempt to smuggle contraband into the cell block early Friday morning.
Reports of that, about 3:45 a.m., officers assigned to the station and the Area 2 Division Intelligence Unit responded to a report of suspicious activities at the rear of the cell block after receiving a call from an anonymous source indicating that men were on the compound attempting to smuggle drugs to inmates.
The officers observed two men wearing black hoodies and one armed with a machete. One of the men fled the scene by scaling the perimeter fence upon seeing the police.
The man with the machete reportedly advanced aggressively towards one of the officers, despite being told to drop the weapon.
In response, the officer discharged his service pistol, but fell to the ground with the suspect still advancing. The cop fired more rounds.
In an effort to protect his colleague, the other policeman discharged his firearm, hitting the attacker who fell.
A search of the suspect revealed a quantity of vegetable matter resembling ganja, a brown bag containing a cell phone, charger and tobacco.
The wounded man was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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