Police say slain 15-year-old was not innocent

As investigations continue into the Tredegar Park massacre, another suspect has been captured.

A man who turned up at the Kingston Public Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds and who gave the police a false name and wrong address was identified as one of the suspects.

No saint

And Head of the St. Catherine North Police Division, Superintendent Assan Thompson, is insisting that a 15-year-old who killed in the wake of the incident was not innocent.

The man who turned up at the Kingston Public Hospital following the "Black Friday" incident was injured in a shoot out with the police who went to Tredegar Park early Friday morning.

The arrest of that man brings to three, the number of persons captured since the killing on the Tredegar Park 8.

Mother’s plea for justice

However two of the suspects were killed by the police during reported confrontations in an area known as "Brooklyn".

One of those suspects 15-year-old Derrick Anthony Banton, otherwise called Crabbie, was said to be innocent.

This was his mother, Geraldine Williams, when she spoke with RJR News Friday.

“Where is the justice for my child that died innocently? His life just gone down like a dog. And when they finished they just throw something over him like they want to light him but when the people came they started to run. Tell me how am I supposed to cope? Just tell me,” Miss Williams said.

But on Saturday Superintendent Assan Thompson insists that there is no truth to claims that he was killed in cold blood.

In fact Superintendent Thompson noted that the public should not concern itself too much with the age of the suspect.

Age not a deterrent

Superintendent Thompson also rehashed an incident in which a 15-year-old boy allegedly beheaded a 60-year-old man and placed his head in the middle of the road in the same Thompson Pen, Brooklyn community where Bolton was killed.

The St. Catherine North Police head is also calling on parents to keep their children away from the company of gangsters.

He said if and when juveniles confront the police with firearms, age will not determine the response.

Eight persons including two children were killed when a group of up to 20 heavily armed men invaded the Tredegar Park community early Friday morning.

Superintendent Thompson said the killings will not go unpunished and every effort will be made to track down and bring to justice all persons who were involved.