Tributes have been pouring in for the policeman who died in a car crash along a section of the Edward Seaga Highway on Saturday.
The cop has since been identified as 36-year-old Donald Carr, popularly known as ‘Notnice’, who was assigned to the St Andrew South Police Division.
The cop is said to be a native of Manchester.
Jam Street Journal earlier reported that sometime after 8pm, the policeman was driving his Nissan Note motor car along the highway, when he lost control of the vehicle in the vicinity of Golden Grove, St Ann.
The vehicle then overturned and landed in a ditch.
Carr and a woman, said to be his girlfriend, were assisted to the hospital, where he died.
As news of the cop’s death surfaced, several persons took to social media site, Facebook, to their shock at his passing.
“Omg man we hold a good vibe by his barracks in Duhaney Park a mth (month) ago…only to find out we are both from Mandeville…smh such a cool yute R.i.P is too much….hoping his girlfriend recovers…,” wrote one woman.
“God know not nice caah believe yuh gone dawg. U were there when my grandfather died,” said another woman.
Added one man: “This coming like nightmare tpcc…mon! Kmft. R.I.P my friend. fly high hope God gives you family the strength to carry on.”
Shared another: “Sigh….. Such a hard one to swallow…… Mark was so humble….. Rest well my school mate.”
Another man, purportedly from Carr’s Manchester community, said residents were also grief-stricken to learn of his passing.
“Jah know not nice me get the news this morning and me still can’t believe that you really just dead so sigh the whole community in Clarks town can’t believe that you really gone me gena sigh so sad to say Rip,” he wrote.
The Police Federation has also expressed condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased lawman.
