THE KITSON Town community in St Catherine is tense following the fatal shooting of a resident from the area on Sunday.

Dead is Teroy Bonner, a 22-year-old labourer of Kitson Town, St Catherine.

Police reports are that about 8 p.m., police personnel from the Guanomoa Vale Police Station were on patrol.

When they went into Jackie Lane in the community, they reported being fired upon. During that exchange, Bonner was hit.

The police said another person escaped and is being sought.

As the news spread that Bonner was dead, irate residents who blamed the police, set a police Grand Vitara on fire.

"A execute dem execute him. Dem put him pon him knee and shot him, as him never have on any shirt," a resident, Marvette Nembhard, said. "The only problem is that him walk up and down the street."

"We all play a part in growing him as his parents are not around. It is a lucky thing more persons were not around or perhaps more would die," Jacquiline, the deceased's aunt, said.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Special Investigations is conducting a probe into the incident.

Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has condemned the burning of the police vehicle and has asked that anyone who has information about the incident come forward.

rasbert.turner@gleanerjm.com