Police probe fatal shootings, Manchester double murder and public order arrests

Police and oversight investigators are examining several serious incidents across St. Catherine, Manchester and Kingston, including fatal shootings, a double murder, a workplace stabbing and a deadly accident involving construction steel.

INDECOM has opened an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a man in Portmore, St. Catherine, on Thursday night. Police reported that members of the St. Catherine South Quick Response Unit were patrolling Gilbert Avenue in the Dunbeholden area about 8:45 p.m. when they saw a man with what appeared to be a gun in his waistband. Officers said they later encountered two men at a premises, and one allegedly fired at them. Police returned fire, pursued the armed man into the house, and said a second exchange occurred in the kitchen. The wounded man was taken to Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said a pistol with a magazine containing eight rounds was recovered.

In Manchester, police are investigating the execution-style killings of 60-year-old Yubert Ferguson, also called “Bestie,” and his 33-year-old son Floyd Ferguson, also called “Fido,” at their New Forest home early Friday. A police source said the men’s hands had been bound before they were shot. Investigators suspect a lottery-scamming connection, and several vehicles, including luxury cars, were found at the property. The source also said the elder Ferguson had served time in the United Kingdom for cocaine trafficking and that both men were on the police radar.

Manchester police also identified 60-year-old Robert Dos of George Reed district, Mandeville, as the man killed after lengths of steel fell from a delivery truck in Balvin Heights about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. He was sitting under a tree when the material struck him and later died at hospital.

In Kingston, 25-year-old Stanley Reed of Portmore was fatally stabbed along Shannon Drive, Newport West, after an altercation with a 39-year-old colleague at Kingston Logistics Centre. Police said the men had earlier fought at work, and the dispute resumed after work. The suspect is in custody.

Six vendors were charged and five warned during a Thursday police clampdown on vending along the Winston Jones Highway in Mandeville. Police said vending near the Williamsfield and New Green roundabouts was disrupting traffic and urged vendors to use the Mandeville market.

A curfew has also been imposed in March Pen, Spanish Town, after four people were shot, two fatally, about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on Corlett Road. SSP Hopton Nicholson said the dead are Barton Stewart, 36, and Akeem Smith, 27. Police are seeking Dammani Burton, also called “Dam,” Colin Booth, also called “George,” men known as “Crooks” and “Brother,” and two people called “Twin,” asking them to report by 8 a.m. on June 5, 2026.