A member of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's security detail was last night shot and killed along Sundown Crescent, off Molynes Road in St. Andrew.

He has been identified as Detective Sergeant Everton Brown. Reports reaching The Gleaner are that Brown went to Sundown Crescent close to 9:00 p.m., where he dropped off a woman.

He was immediately pounced upon by unknown assailants who shot him and took his firearm. His car was later found abandoned in the nearby Olympic Way/Bay Farm Road area.