The St. Mary police have been left baffled after a murder / suicide involving one of their own, on the precincts of the Islington police station, earlier this afternoon (Dec 9).

Dead are 25 year old District Constable Toyan Ormsby, who was assigned to the Islington police station and 62 year old Dawnette Maxwell, both of Islington district.

Police said Ormbsy shot and killed Maxwell then turned the gun on himself.

Several theories are being bandied about as to what led to the incident, and police said they are looking into them.

DSP Clarke of the St. Mary police told Irie FM News that Maxwell had gone to the Islington station to visit an inmate.

He said reports indicate that sometime after 1: 00 p.m. Ormsby and Maxwell were just outside the station conversing, when explosions were heard.

Maxwell reportedly died on the spot, while Ormsby died while undergoing treatment at hospital.

DSP Clarke said based on the positioning of the weapon, it was determined that the district constable had killed himself.

Meantime, Ormsbys uncle Garth, told Irie FM News that family members, including Toyan’s mother – who is also a police officer – are traumatised by the incident.

And the Chaplaincy Unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has been activated to offer grief counselling to all parties affected by todays shooting incident at the Islington police station in St. Mary.

A statement from the Constabulary Communications Unit said the community safety and security branch has also been directed to offer support.

Detectives and scenes of crime personnel from the JCF technical services division are on the scene.

A Justice of the Peace who was called in to offer counselling support to the grieving cops, told Irie FM News that Ormsbys colleagues are still in shock at the incident.