News February 27 2026

Shooting suspect nabbed after 20 years

Updated February 27 2026 2 min read

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Deputy Superintendent Rohan Ritchie, commanding officer for St Thomas.

Two decades since he allegedly shot a woman in the face in front of her child, disfiguring her features and altering her speech for life, Collin ‘Tumpa Dragon’ Mowatt has been nabbed. On Wednesday, Mowatt, who was in his early 40s at the time, was charged for the 2006 incident, which still sends chills through Lloyds district in St Thomas. Now 61, and after being implicated in another firearm-related matter in St Ann last December, sleuths in the eastern parish moved in, slapping handcuffs on a man whose case preceded computer record storage at their stations.

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