Kevon Felmine

A 34-year-old Chatham man was shot and killed dur­ing a stand-off with po­lice in Point Fortin on Thurs­day night. Don Caton, of South Trace, suc­cumbed to mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds at the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal at around 9.13 pm. Po­lice said he was a known crim­i­nal, want­ed in con­nec­tion with re­cent crimes in the area. Po­lice said at around 8.25 pm, South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers were re­turn­ing from an op­er­a­tion when they were alert­ed to a rob­bery tak­ing place at Lisa's Bar on South Cen­tral Road, Cap-de-Ville. They saw a sus­pect run­ning from the back of the build­ing in­to a forest­ed area. Of­fi­cers pur­sued and came up­on Caton some 300 feet in­to the for­est. They said Caton was armed with a pis­tol and when they or­dered him to drop it, he re­fused.

In­stead, they said, he raised the weapon, and in fear for their lives, they fired sev­er­al shots at him. Caton was struck three times in his chest and right leg. He was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where he died mo­ments lat­er. Po­lice said Caton was want­ed in con­nec­tion with the as­sault of a fe­male se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer at Cap-de-Ville Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Wednes­day. It is al­so al­leged that he raped and robbed a woman in the same area a few months ago. Min­utes be­fore the rob­bery, of­fi­cers led by Se­nior Supt Ram­sey, Supt Franklin Sam­path, ASP Belfour and Sergeant Granger re­cov­ered a home-made sub ma­chine gun from an aban­doned house in Chatham.