UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY MEN WERE TO CARRY OUT HIT ON BAR TENDER; ONE ON THE RUN
RUNAWAY BAY, St Ann; June 12, 2025
At least three men were shot and killed by police in the Salem Runaway Bay area, St Ann, on Wednesday night, June 11.
Reports to the North Coast Times are that the men were killed during a police operation near the busy commercial strip at Salem, east of Runaway Bay. The men have not yet been identified.
The North Coast Times was told that detectives from the Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime investigation Branch (C-TOC) were following reports that men were deployed to murder a bartender in the Salem/Runaway Bay area.
The men were trailed and put under surveillance, with support from St Ann police. They were tracked from the Edward Seaga Highway all the way to Salem. More than a dozen C-TOC operatives were involved in the operation.
About 8:50 p.m., four men travelling in a Toyota Probox motor car were allegedly intercepted on Back Street, a dense residential settlement, parallel to Main Street, Salem (the North Coast Highway). They had reportedly been asking for information to contact someone, believed to be a bartender.
One of the men ran from the vehicle, opening fire at the police. Another man in the car also fired at the police, who were travelling in four vehicles. Members of the C-TOC team returned the gunfire in the direction of the men.
When the shooting stopped, the three men remaining in the Probox were found suffering from gunshot wounds.
They were pronounced dead at St Ann’s Bay Hospital.
There is no word about the fourth man who fled the vehicle.
Police did not say how many guns were recovered.
