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Security firm offers $200,000 reward leading to arrest of gunmen

MCKAY SECURITY LIMITED has offered a reward of $200,000 for information leading to the arrest of gunmen who fatally shot security officer Edward Green at the Gregory Park entrance to Caymanas Park on Tuesday evening.

Green was pounced on by two assailants, who shot him several times and escaped with his firearm.

The gunmen had allegedly scaled the perimetre wall of Caymanas Park near the Salix Barn, a veterinary station adjacent to the 'train line' squatter settlement.

After shooting Green, the gunmen ran through the Gregory Park gate while two of their cronies on the outside fired in the direction of spectators attending a Racing Fraternity football match at the nearby Racing playfield.

Jason McKay, chief executive officer of McKay Security Limited, said 41-year-old Green was one of the pioneer members of staff, who had joined the company in January of 1996 when the firm first took up the contract at Caymanas Park.

"It was a brutal and cowardly act that will not go unpunished," said McKay, whose firm has so far lost two employees in addition to several others being wounded in maintaining a security presence on the vast Caymanas Park compound, which is bordered by several communities including a squatter settlement to the Gregory Park end.

Green's killing was the 72nd homicide recorded in the St. Catherine South Police Division since January.

This is the second time in three years that McKay Security has offered a reward for information leading to the arrest of gunmen. In 2002, McKay Security paid a $200,000 reward for information which led to the apprehension of thugs responsible for the killing of Constable Clyde Morgan, formerly of the Denham Town Police Station.

Constable Morgan was shot 12 times while stuck in traffic sitting in a police jeep in the market area of downtown Kingston. McKay, a prominent investigator, had played a major role in unearthing Morgan's killers.