By Keril Wright, Staff ReporterWESTERN BUREAU:
TWO PERSONS were killed in Montego Bay yesterday in an alleged shoot-out with the police.
Police shot dead Ansel Mellish, 24, nicknamed "Zadda" and Tash Leslie, 21, known as "Charles Bronson", in an alleged shoot-out.
According to police reports, yesterday's shoot-out, which left a police constable nursing gunshot wounds, occurred on the busy Fairfield main road about 1:30 p.m.
Cons. Peter Salkey said that a police party was on patrol along Barnett Street, when they accosted Mellish, who they say had absconded $1 million bail on a murder charge.
Police say Mellish, who was driving a red Suzuki Swift car, was signalled to stop but refused. He was chased along the Westgate main road onto the Fairfield road, where the car was intercepted and he and another man, later identified as Leslie, jumped out and opened fire on the police party.
The police said they fired back and the a gun fight continued in bushes along the main road. Both men were subsequently shot and later pronounced dead at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay. The police say they recovered a 9 mm Taurus pistol with three cartridges.
The police say that Oral Brown, 28, upholsterer, of Albion Lane, was shot at his home at 7 o'clock yesterday morning when gunmen forced their way into his house, and opened fire on him and his female companion.
He was pronounced dead at the Cornwall Regional Hospital while his companion, who was shot in the hip, was admitted in a stable condition.
Police say they have not yet established a motive for the killing. Brown's death brings to seven the number of murders committed in St. James since the start of the year.
