IN JAMAICA: Cop ambushed, killed Thugs murder Eldermire-Shearer’s bodyguard on Sunrise Crescent

A police sergeant assigned to the Protective Services Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force was yesterday ambushed and shot dead as he walked home on Sunrise Crescent in St Andrew.

He has been identified as Alphanso Gossop, the bodyguard assigned to Denise Eldermire-Shearer — widow of former Prime Minister Hugh Shearer. He was in his mid 50s.

Andre Gossop, a police officer assigned to the Protective Services Division, is being comforted by a colleague as he stood metres away from the body of his uncle, who was killed on Sunrise Crescent in Kingston yesterday. (PHOTO: GARFIELD ROBINSON

In a swift response, the police intercepted a Nissan Tida motor car — believed to be the getaway vehicle near Half-Way-Tree, the St Andrew capital — and arrested its four male occupants. The vehicle was also seized.
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