A policeman was on Saturday shot and injured during a gun attack, during which a taxi operator was also wounded in Portmore, St Catherine.
It is being widely speculated that the taxi operator may have been the target of an attempted contract-style killing.
Preliminary reports suggest that at about 11:40 am, the officer was doing business at West Henderson Boulevard in Greater Portmore when he an armed man walked up and fired shots at a taxi operator.
The policeman reportedly engaged the attacker who hastily retreated.
However, subsequent checks revealed that the lawman was shot in the region of his lower body.
He remains admitted in stable condition in hospital.
The injured taxi operator has reportedly been admitted at hospital, but his condition remains unknown at this time.
The Independent Commission of Investigations and the St Catherine South police have launched separate probes into the shooting incident.
Meanwhile, business owners and persons, who were in the vicinity at the time gunshots rang out, were left shaken by the incident.
“Mi a tell you that me feel frighten so till. Duck me haffi duck and run when me hear the gunshots. A lucky thing the police did on scene,” a man told Jam Street Journal.
“It seem like a the taxi man dem definitely go fah. Boy di taxi man dem a get it from the other day,” he shared.
On Tuesday night, a taxi operator was shot and killed by a gunman posing as a passenger in Linstead, St Catherine.
There are reports of other taxi operators being killed, or seriously injured this year, as well.
