By: Drizel Hanley
Basseterre, St. Kitts (FEBRUARY 2018) -A police constable has been charged with manslaughter following reports of his involvement in the 2015 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Philo Wallace of Nevis.
According to the authorities Constable Zaviel Jeffers of Main Street, Old Road who is a member the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force, was arrested and charged on Monday of this week, (February 19th) .
On October 17th 2015, Wallace attended a party at Enrique’s night club in Charlestown, Nevis where it was alleged that a confrontation arose between him and an off-duty member of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force who was later identified as Constable Jeffers.
As a result, Wallace was shot in the chest and was rushed to the Alexander Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Consequently, in April last year, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Valston Graham, had advised the Police High Command that the constable should be charged.
The recommendation was made in spite of the findings at the Coroner’s Inquest in March 2016, when a five-member jury had determined that Wallace’s shooting death was a “justifiable homicide.”