Tonight a 19 year resident of Unitedville is at the KHMH recovering from a surgery to remove multiple gunshot pellets from his back. Early on Monday morning, Elston Arnold was shot in the back by police - and his family says it is for no reason at all.
Arnold and two friends were coming from a wake and a church bus had dropped them on the highway about half a mile from their home. A police mobile pulled up and searched them. One of Arnold's cousins had words with the police, and the police started to beat him. Arnold's family says that Elston Arbnold started to leave, when one of the police officers shot him in the back with a pump action shotgun. Worse than that, they say the officers then left him there - and a justice of the peace had to rush him to the Western Regional Hospital.
He later had to be transferred to the KHMH - which is where he had surgery today to remove multiple shotgun pellets.
And while that is the family's version of events, today we spoke with Officer Commanding Cayo, Inspector Reymundo Reyes via telephone, and he confirmed that police are investigating a complaint in which one of 4 officers shot a civilian for no apparent reason. He told us that this matter is being treated seriously, and that the police high command are discussing whether or not the 4 officers who conducted the search need to be suspended until the outcome of this matter.
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