Cop's attacker beaten to death

Omar Anderson, staff reporter

It's quite unusual these days for citizens to come to the rescue of the police.

But yesterday, residents in Wakefield, Trelawny beat to death, a man who had earlier attacked a constable with a machete at the Wakefield Police Station and almost severed the policeman's hand.

Dead is David Walden, 60, of Maroon Town, St. James, whom the police had also shot before he was set upon by residents.

Reports from the police are that at about 10 a.m. yesterday, Constable Oscar Clarke was at the Wakefield Police Station when Mr. Walden attacked him with a machete, then ran into a nearby building.

Citizens converged on the building and started stoning him. Armed with a knife, Mr. Walden later ran out of the building towards several policeman who had by then arrived on the scene. The police shot him in his leg and he fell. He was beaten by residents.

Mr. Walden was pronounced dead at hospital while Consta-ble Clarke was taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay.

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