A San Juan man, who was la­belled a pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er, was killed by po­lice dur­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion at his home be­tween Sun­day night and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, has al­ready as­sured that all footage cap­tured by the body cam­eras worn by of­fi­cers in­volved in the in­ci­dent will be care­ful­ly re­viewed, as an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched.

The man has been iden­ti­fied as Dale Baird, 50, of Laven­tille Road, Febeau Vil­lage, San Juan.

The an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, which was car­ried out un­der the TTPS’ Vi­o­lent Crime Re­duc­tion Plan, as well as the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2024, re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers from the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion con­duct­ing a search of Baird’s home from 10 pm on Sun­day to 2 am yes­ter­day.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion that Baird had il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion, of­fi­cers ar­rived at his house at 10.50 pm and re­port­ed hear­ing sus­pi­cious nois­es com­ing from in­side.

As of­fi­cers en­tered the premis­es and be­gan search­ing, they en­tered a bed­room on the west­ern side of the house and re­port­ed­ly found Baird, clad on­ly in a pair of shorts, stand­ing be­tween two beds armed with a shot­gun, which he al­leged­ly point­ed at them.

In­struct­ing Baird to put down the weapon, of­fi­cers opened fire when he re­fused to.

Of­fi­cers al­leged­ly re­cov­ered a shot­gun next to Baird, whilst a sec­ond shot­gun was found on the bed.

Baird was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was pro­nounced dead.

Two 12-gauge shot­guns, six live 12-gauge car­tridges and eight 9 mm spent shells were re­cov­ered.

Re­fer­ring to the in­ci­dent dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day, Si­mon ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to Baird’s fam­i­ly and friends. He said an ASP had been ap­point­ed to lead the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the po­lice killing.