A POLICEMAN is currently being investigated, including by the Police Office of Professional Responsibility, after shooting a man outside of the Georgetown Prison at Camp and Durban Streets on Saturday night.Police say the man visited the back of the prison at John and Durban Streets, where he behaved disorderly and threw down some steel barriers in the presence of ranks guarding the perimeter of the prison. Ranks of a police patrol then took the man into custody; but after his release, he returned to an area south of the prison and resumed behaving in a disorderly fashion, prompting a constable armed with a service weapon to intervene.

Reportedly under supervision of a subordinate officer, the constable approached the unarmed man and was allegedly attacked. In defence, the constable discharged a round, hitting the man in the lower abdomen. He was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), but died while receiving treatment.

Police investigations are reportedly in progress, including one by the Office of Professional Responsibility.