Commanding Officer of the Manchester Police Superintendent Carey Duncan has revealed that several attempts were made in Tuesday's standoff along Calendonia Road in Mandeville to get the suspect to surrender peacefully.
Instead of complying, however, the unidentified man continued shooting at the police and was eventually was shot and killed during a four-hour standoff.
The police recovered an omni multi-calibre 5.56 rifle, a Beretta 9 millimetre pistol and more than 500 assorted rounds of ammunition inside the apartment where the gunman was killed.
Superintendent Duncan, speaking on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines, stressed that the gunman refused to comply with police orders to surrender.
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