St. Kitts-Nevis officer charged with manslaughter in 2015 teen shooting
Constable Jeffers of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force has been charged with manslaughter over the 2015 shooting death of 17-year-old Philo Wallace.
St. Kitts-Nevis constable charged over fatal shooting of teenager
A police constable from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a 17-year-old, caribbeannationalweekly.com reports.
Constable Jeffers was charged on Monday, more than three years after the death of Philo Wallace on the morning of Saturday, 17 October 2015. The incident began during an altercation at a bar in Charlestown, Nevis, which left Wallace shot in the chest and a police officer wounded.
Wallace was rushed to the Alexandra Hospital, where he died shortly after. Jeffers, who sustained a head injury during the incident, was identified as the individual who shot Wallace at close range. He was off-duty at the time.
A Coroner's Inquest in March 2016 returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide," with a five-member jury determining the shooting was justified. Despite that finding, Director of Public Prosecutions Valston Graham advised the Police High Command in April of last year that Jeffers should nonetheless be charged.
The charge of manslaughter was subsequently brought against the constable, marking a significant development in a case that had remained unresolved for nearly three years following the inquest's original determination.
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