By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter 
A policeman photographs the crime scene at 4 John Street, Allman Town, Kingston, yesterday, where five members of a family were reportedly shot and injured by Jamaica Defence Force Corporal Michael Williams on Sunday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
CORPORAL MICHAEL Williams, the 31-year-old bodyguard of Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) chief of staff, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, was last night arrested and charged with several counts of shooting and wounding.
He has been charged in connection with the shooting of five members of his ex-girlfriend's family.
Among the injured was a three-year-old girl. Acting Deputy Superintendent Michael Phipps of the Kingston Central CIB told The Gleaner last night that three of the injured persons have been released, but the infant was still hospitalised.
Police investigators have since sent the Uzi sub-machine gun and the 9mm pistol which Williams used to the Forensic Laboratory for testing. The JDF corporal is scheduled to appear in the Gun Court on Friday.
According to the police, the soldier confessed during questioning that he was madly in love with his ex-girlfriend. The woman wanted to end the relationship but he was not prepared for this.
It is said that whenever he visited her home in Allman Town, Kingston, she refused to speak to him.
On Sunday, he visited the home, then left and went to the army base at Up Park Camp where he picked up the weapons that were assigned to him. He headed back to Allman Town, and in a fit of rage, started shooting at everyone in the yard.
Those injured were Kingsley West, 54, a postal worker and a member of the JDF reserves; his son, Evard West, 26, a security guard; his daughter, Jacqueline West-Ramsay, 32, a nurse at the University Hospital of the West Indies; her husband, Carlton Ramsay, 36, a sales representative; and the Ramsays' three-year-old daughter.
The Gleaner was told that Williams, a 14-year veteran of the JDF, is one of few specially trained soldiers who are used to guard foreign diplomats. He was born in St. Thomas and later grew up with relatives in Harbour View, east Kingston. He currently lives in Portmore, St. Catherine.
