The police is making it clear that Dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta is not a wanted man.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay, head of the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) says, the deejay is simply a person of interest and not wanted by the cops.
“We are are seeking him as a person of interest in relation to some investigations in Montego Bay in St James. He is not wanted. We are giving him until tomorrow [today] to come in and speak with the detectives at the Freeport Police Station,” SSP Linday told the Observer on Monday.
While hoping for Tommy Lee Sparta’s cooperation, police says they would have no other choice but to go and find him if he fails to show.
The Uncle Demon deejay was named as a Person of Interest by police on Monday. He is being advised to report to the Freeport Police Station in St James by midday Tuesday, July 7.
Its understood that cops want to question the 32-year-old deejay whose given name is Leroy Russell Junior, about an upsurge of violence in Flanker in St. James.
In June 2016, detectives in the Kingston Eastern Division listed Tommy Lee Sparta as a person of interest in relation to a shooting incident on Saunders Avenue in the Kingston 2 region of the Corporate Area.
Back in January 2017 Freeport Police Station asked the deejay to turn himself in for questioning in relation to a shooting in the Flanker community during the Christmas holiday.
In March this year, Tommy Lee Sparta’s six-year-old daughter was shot during an altercation among three men in Flanker. A nine-year-old boy was fatally shot in the incident.
