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Friday, May 30, 2025

Shumba James fatally shot by police during Moruga shootout

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SASCHA WILSON
34 days ago
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Police officers at the scene of the shooting incident in St Mary’s Village, Moruga, on Friday 25 April 2025, during which Shumba James and another man were killed by police. [Image by CHE TEEKERSINGH]

Police officers at the scene of the shooting incident in St Mary’s Village, Moruga, on Friday 25 April 2025, during which Shumba James and another man were killed by police. [Image by CHE TEEKERSINGH]

 

Shum­ba James and an­oth­er man were fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice dur­ing a shootout in St. Mary’s Vil­lage, Moru­ga, ear­li­er to­day.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that around 10:30 am, James and an­oth­er oc­cu­pant of a ve­hi­cle ex­changed gun­fire with po­lice of­fi­cers. Both men died at the scene.

James, a res­i­dent of St. Mary’s, was among sev­er­al peo­ple de­tained dur­ing the State of Emer­gency and had re­cent­ly been re­leased. He al­so was a for­mer wit­ness in the State’s un­suc­cess­ful pros­e­cu­tion of six po­lice of­fi­cers charged in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal shoot­ing of his girl­friend, Alana Dun­can of San Fer­nan­do, and her friends Abi­gail John­son and Ker­ron “Fin­gers” Ec­cles, both of St. Mary’s Vil­lage.

James had pre­vi­ous­ly faced sep­a­rate charges of home in­va­sion and at­tempt­ed mur­der.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) South Cen­tral, Wayne Mys­tar, con­firmed the in­ci­dent.

He stat­ed that fur­ther de­tails will be pro­vid­ed as more in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.

—This sto­ry will be up­dat­ed as new de­vel­op­ments un­fold—


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