A Gleaner photojournalist was yesterday taken into custody and charged by the police while trying to capture images of a crime scene, following a police shooting in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, in the afternoon.

Ricardo Makyn was slapped with three charges for using abusive language to a police officer; assaulting a police officer; and, disobeying the instructions of a police officer.

Makyn says he was standing outside an area cordoned off by the police, snapping photographs of the crime scene, when an officer in plain clothes approached him and demand that he stop taking photographs.

Shoved, twice

An argument then developed during which, the photographer says, he was shoved, twice.

Makyn was then taken to the Half-Way Tree Police station where he was charged.

He was granted bail in the sum of $10,000 and is scheduled to appear in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court on March 4.

Makyn was covering the shooting of a man accused of stealing a police officer's phone when he was arrested.

According to police, the man was shot after he wielded a knife at the officer.

The injured man was taken to hospital.