A 39-year-old man, de­scribed as a men­ace, has been fa­tal­ly shot by the po­lice af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked them with a cut­lass in Ma­yaro yes­ter­day morn­ing. He was iden­ti­fied as Gabriel Hink­son, 39, of Food Crop Road, Dou­ble Bridge, New­lands Vil­lage.

Ini­tial re­ports stat­ed that around 3 am, of­fi­cers from the Ma­yaro CID went 150 feet along Food Crop Road to get to Hink­son’s gar­den camp. The po­lice were fol­low­ing up on a re­cent re­port against him of ma­li­cious dam­age to prop­er­ty val­ued at $13,000. The of­fi­cers said they an­nounced their pres­ence, and the vic­tim came to a gal­vanised door, armed with a cut­lass. They said the man at­tacked them, in­jur­ing one of­fi­cer on his hand. He was shot mul­ti­ple times.

Hink­son was tak­en to the Ma­yaro Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead. His rel­a­tives ad­mit­ted that he was “re­gard­ed as a men­ace” in the com­mu­ni­ty, as there were many re­ports against him in the po­lice sta­tion, and he had al­so served prison time.