The PNCR says it is concerned about the police statement that Buxton resident Tyrone Pollard was killed during an exchange of gunfire with the joint services after army ranks searched the area and did not recover the weapon.
Forty-six-year-old Pollard, of Lot 81 Buxton Sideline Dam was killed after he allegedly exchanged gunfire with the ranks from the Disciplined Forces and sought to elude them by plunging into the Sideline canal, the party said in a press release. It said residents have since offered a different account about how the man met his death; saying that only one shot was fired and that was the one that ended Pollard’s life. After the GDF ranks’ search of the area failed to recover the weapon, “a police officer appeared and went into the trench in the same area and miraculously found a .38 pistol and matching rounds,” the PNCR said. Further, the party said, “it appears that only two rounds were supposedly fired and not the four which the police claimed were fired by the victim.”
