INDECOM probes shooting of mentally challenged male


The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into an incident which resulted in the shooting of a mentally challenged man in Manchester.


The man is being treated at the Mandeville Hospital after he allegedly attacked a police constable on Saturday evening. It is alleged that the man attacked the lawman with a knife just outside the Super Plus Centre in Mandeville, as he patrolled a section of the town on foot.


The police constable escaped injury, but the mentally challenged man was shot during efforts to restrain him.



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