CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA: THE STONE CRUSHER GANG

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Historical Development of the Stone Crusher Gang

Keepers of the Legacy
How did the Stone crushers fund their operation?
The screw called Fear
Corruption in the Jamaica Constabulary Force?
Evidence of Corruption in the Force: The Case of the “Marked Police Vest”
Norwood Killing Fields
Exhibited Heads surrounded by Burning Candles
Eight days later
Who were these individuals?
Stone Crushers Lore
Garfield 'Don' Sawyers
Delano 'Bigga Crime' Williams: Stone Crusher Murder Practitioner
Killings linked to Delano - The “Blood Lane” Killings
Burnt remains found in a car
The killing of Bigga Crime Williams
Michael 'Lassie' Forbes
The “Blood Lane” Killings
Huddersfield St. Mary is a long way from Glendevon St. James: The Killing of Forbes
Rohan 'Don' Gordon
Deputy Superintendent Derrick Cowboy Knight
The Killing of Rohan 'Don' Gordon
Damion Vassell – the cop killer?
Open season on police officers
The Killing of Vassell
The Man with the hit list - Richard 'Richie Blacks' Lawn
Cedric Douggie Murray – Who Am I?
Sunrise
Attending St. James High
Migration to the United States
A soldier’s soldier
Murray returns to Jamaica
Avenging the death of his brother
Cedric Murray - The Jamaican contract killer?
Wanted
Refuge in Tivoli
Bloody Sunday in January: Operation Calvert et al Stone Crushers
No Man is an Island
The Tivoli Incursion
Before the break of dawn
Police Killing fields
August 2010 - Meet me at the Border
Sunset
Robert 'Bobboo' Harding – The Financier?
Eldon Calvert – Leader Extraordinaire?
Killings directly linked to Calvert
The capture of Calvert
Calvert on trial
Detective Sergeant Michael Sirjue
Beverley East – The Graphologist
Sirjue flees the island
Justice Gloria Smith - “This is a very sad day in the history of justice.”
Not welcome anymore
All Alone: The killing of Calvert
Who killed Calvert?
Reference Sources

CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA: THE STONE CRUSHER GANG

Garfield 'Don' Sawyers - a product of Hendon in Norwood.. Shot and killed by police on April
26th 2006, in a St. James community called Niagra. Previously placed on the Montego Bay police
most wanted list. Found clutching a Colt .38 revolver containing four spent shells and three live
rounds. The serial number of the weapon was erased.
Delano 'Bigga Crime' Williams - “arguably the most brutal member of the gang....” a
product of Glendevon in Norwood; identified as a “primary lieutenant in the Stone
Crusher gang; shot and killed by police on May 21 st 2006 in Glendevon. 22 years old at
the time of his death; previously topped St. James police most wanted list; a Colt AR15
A2 rifle, containing thirty-two 5.56mm cartridges, reportedly taken from his grasp, serial
number SP248769.
Michael 'Lassie' Forbes - a revered leader, a senior member. Convicted in a Montego
Bay Gun Court and sentenced to 12 years for illegal possession of firearm and
ammunition; January 29, 2002, escape from captivity. Shot and killed by police in
Huddersfield St. Mary on July 4th, 2006; a 9mm Beretta pistol and thirty one rounds of
like ammunition removed from his person.
Rohan Don Gordon - on May 31st, 1981. January 31 st 2003, then 22 years old, arrested
and charged with the murder of an eight month old child; fingered in another killing, 12
hours after the killing of the infant, of a 32-year-old woman who had allegedly
“condemned” the killing of the infant; a young brother, Jermaine Gordon, then only 11
years old when Don Gordon was arrested, was shot and killed by the police at 15 years
old. Shot and killed by police on May 20 th 2007, in Paradise, Norwood; a loaded Taurus
9mm pistol, serial #96099, found on his person.
Damion Vassell – alleged killer of police Sergeant Allan Lindsay, in Glendevon, Norwood,
and allegedly involved in the killing of another police officer, Constable Cornel Lewis.
Shot and killed by police on December 13th 2007, three firearms, a 9mm Browning pistol, a Sig
Sauer 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver, two bullet proof vests and 49 rounds of assorted
ammunition were reportedly recovered, among them the gun that was reportedly taken from
the body of Sergeant Lindsey, as was Lindsey’s bullet-proof vest.
Richard 'Richie Blacks' Lawn – shot and killed by police on April 2nd 2010; a Beretta 9
mm pistol with six rounds was taken from his body; an alleged hit list containing the
names of civilians and police officers found on his person.
Cedric Doggie Murray – a product of Glendevon, Norwood; allegedly contract killer;
fingered in at least 30 murders committed in St James ; listed among the island's 10 most
wanted criminals in excess of five years ; kept a diary of his outlaw days; fought on the side
of Dudus in the May 2010 West Kingston security operation; shot and killed by police
August 12th 2010 on the border of Clarendon and Manchester, a Sig Saucer Pro handgun
found on his person.
Robert 'Bobboo' Harding – a by-product of Glendevon, reputedly “the overseas financier”
of the Stone Crusher; migrated to the United States, where he remaine d “for several years”;
October of 2012, shot and killed by police in Glendeveon and killed by the police, three
weeks after he had returned to Jamaica, by way of deportation.
Eldon Calvert – In November of 2007, police issued a reward of one million dollars for
his capture, identifying him as among Jamaica’s most wanted. On Monday January 21 st,
2008, Calvert was captured, by members of Operation Kingfish, at the time of his
capture, he was implicated in at least sixteen (16) murders; shot and killed in Salt Spring,
by then unknown gunmen.

“While gangs like One Order (Flankers) Killer Bees (Granville), Miguel Jarrett
(Flower Hill),
Tight Pants (North Gully) and Piranha (Bottom Pen) have all left bloody imprints
on the city over the years,
in terms of sheer ruthlessness and brutality, the Norwood-based Stone Crusher
[G]gang has been the deadliest of all.”1

Historical Development of the Stone Crusher Gang

"From you live in the area, people see you as a Renegade ...
It was like a community thing,"
 "In wartime, everybody unite behind the Renegade."2

It is said that prior to the name “Stone Crusher,” a group of young people, mostly men,
but also a “a few women,” in their early 20s, living in a community called Hendon,
located in Norwood, labeled themselves Renegades. During those formative years, the
Renegade’s nemesis was another group of young people, who mostly hailed from a
neighbouring community called Bottom Pen, also located in Norwood. This opposing
group of young people, labeled themselves, in return, Piranha. The Renegades and the
Piranha engaged in regular “street battles.”3

Keepers of the Legacy

"Di yute dem born come si dem relatives getting murdered in gang war,
“... So what is happening today is mostly reprisal...
“It is the same war from back in the days ... the only thing is that more yute have
gun."4

Reportedly, deaths of some “pioneer,” Renegades, “at the hands of the police and at times
fellow gangsters,” incarceration of others, “for various crimes committed” and yes, others
migrating overseas, “mostly to the United States” allowed for younger Renegades, and
admirers, to become keepers of the legacy.5

These younger Renegades steeped in violence having witnessed it all around them,
“especially those who had lost relatives to violence,” and deciding that the name
Renegade was too passive, too routed in just defense instead of offense, re-branded
themselves, Stone Crusher. This, it is reported, “open[ed] the door to an era of
unprecedented lawlessness as cold-blooded murder, including the beheading of victims,
became the Sone Crushers’ trademark.6
The name Stone Crusher became so widespread that it caught the attention of even
international scholarship, who weighed in on the “Gang,” mostly in an attempt, as wise
scholarship would do, to attempt an understanding of what set an ordinary group of
young people on such a murderous path.7

How did the Stone crushers fund their operation?

To raise funds, the Stone Crushers engaged in extortion and from early on, also identified
“scammers” as persons they could extort and rob “at gunpoint,” without initially coming
onto the radar of Jamaican law-enforcement. So extortion and robbing scammers became
the order of the day for the Stone Crushers as a means to make money.

The screw called Fear

However, some scammers had taken to resisting by carrying their own weapons to wield
off attacks. The Stone Crushers now saw it necessary to instill, if nothing else, fear. We
will not only kill you, we will decapitate you and in addition exhibit your head for all to
see as an additional turn of the screw called fear.

So now it was necessary to not only kill those who put up resistance by whatever means,
whether it was forging alliances with cops, gangs and or individuals that were enemies of
the Stone Crushers, or simple arming themselves and attempting armed resistance, but
kill them in particular ways.

In this violent melting caldron, some scammers, realizing the futility of resistance –
“can’t beat them join them,” turned to hiring Stone Crushers as bodyguards, mainly to
provide muscle in feuds they were involved in with other groups of scammers.

All these activities allowed the gang to build up its coffers. This would manifest itself in
accessing weapons of the high caliber types and more sophisticated hand-gun models,
and mobility, which would lend itself to long-arm crime reach. This mobility was in the
form of high end cars, of the expensive types.
The scam that the Jamaican “scammers” were involved in became simple know as “The
Lottery Scams.” These scams entailed fleecing unsuspecting, mostly “elderly”
Americans to send their hard earned savings to marauding criminals; this after been
tricked into believing that they had won some or other multi-million dollar lottery. At one
point in time it was estimated that Jamaican scammers were fleecing American citizens of
collectively US$300 million each year.8

These were the sums of illegal gotten gains falling into the hands of Jamaican Scammers.

Scammers however, were reluctant to report crime committed against them to the police
as after all, robbing from the scammers in Jamaican parlance, would equate, “thief from
thief God laugh.” In addition because of rampant corruption in the police force, it
probably was best they did not report such crimes.

Corruption in the Jamaica Constabulary Force?

Revelation of such sums to the police, by reporting crimes committed against them would
place scammers in probably greater danger, as this would, in addition to being preyed on
by the Stone Crushers, invite corrupt police officers to figure a way to get in on their ill
gotten gains.

Where such corrupt officers existed they had many openings. They could join up with the
Stone Crushers; they could provide protection to scammers; they could even organize
their own mercenary band or any combination thereof. All this under the cloak that their
organization, the police force unwittingly provided: access to guns and ammunition,
mobility, readily able to identify themselves as lawmen even while engaged in illegal
activities.

Evidence of Corruption in the Force: The Case of the “Marked Police Vest”

"I know policemen who became so tight with the Crushers that people started seeing
them as Crusher"
[and]
"A lot of the scam killings that took place were done by
gangsters and gangster police working together."9

During a raid on a Stone Crusher hideout, a police vest “which had not been reported
missing,” was “found.” One month later, as investigations continued, a police woman to
whom the vest was reportedly assigned was “removed from front-line duties. It went even
further where during one particular period two policemen, allegedly involved in carrying
murders and arson at the behest and or as members of the Stone Crushers were declared
“among St. James’ most wanted.10

Norwood Killing Fields

Exhibited Heads surrounded by Burning Candles

In 2005 a man's head was found on a stool, surrounded by burning candles, not in the
middle of no-where but right in the middle of a Norwood road. Not but a short time
thereafter, another man was beheaded and his head exhibited in front of, of all the places,
a police post in downtown Montego Bay. What a sight that must have been to all
beholders, surely the first person who came upon it. One Jamaican media used the word
“gruesome.”11

Gruesome find in Norwood, Horace Hines, Jamaica Observer, Thursday, March 06,
2008

On March 5, 2008, a partially-decomposed body of a male person was found in a suitcase

under the cellar of an abandoned house. The person’s hands and feet were bound and a
plastic bag was used to cover the head.
These gory exhibits became quickly forgotten, as triple and double killing became regular
occurrences, most times than not members of the same family ending up as multiple
victims. Two brothers here, two brothers and one or both of their wives or girlfriends, a
common-law wife and her husband, a father and son, a father and daughter, aunties and
uncles; the whole gamut; several family members and or neighbours gunned down at the
same time.

Seven shot, three fatally, March 01, 2009

“LIKE COWBOYS of the 'wild, wild West', gunmen carrying nine-millimeter weapons
sprayed patrons at a party on Perry Street, downtown Montego Bay, yesterday morning,
leaving three dead and three nursing gunshot wounds.

“Two hours later, a building contractor became the fourth victim when gunmen shot him
in a drive-by shooting at his gate on Thompson Street, close to the first incident.”

Eight days later

Carnage in Montego Bay - Gunmen invade dance, killing four, March 09, 2009,
Adrian Frater

“Shortly after 2 a.m., on March 8th 2009, reportedly, five men “armed with handguns”
invaded a dance in progress at Bongo Lenny Lane, a lane located in Hendon/Norwood.
Firing in a manner that was described as “wildly at patrons,” they “fired a barrage of
bullets.” When the shooting ended, four persons lay dead, all residents of the same
Hendon/Norwood, while an equal number received gunshot injuries.

***
But who were these individuals, first met as re-branded Renegades, engaged in street
battles with other gangs, now Stone Crushers, committing crimes of unprecedented
numbers and in equal gory savagery?

Who were these individuals?

"Crusher is not a gang, it is a community.

Each time the police kill a member, they claim that they kill the don,
but the don is always here, because there is always someone ready to take over.12

Stone Crushers Lore

In gangland Jamaica, although in some periods and in some gangs one individual wears
the mantle of “leader,” it is not unusual for co-leadership to exist. This fluidity comes
about a result that several individuals within the gang’s circle are graced with similar set
or complementing skills. Co-leaders would comprise of those able to do any one or
combination thereof to an inescapable degree: mobilize people and financial resources,
carry out acts of such ruthlessness as to be talked about with admiration within the closer
circles, and those who had no doubt mastered the craft of quick thinking.

In addition, although one might not bear the title of leader, they were other respected
ranks, consisting of those whose had aged along with the gang, come of age within the
circle, and those who criminal exploits were unquestioned. These two ranks, aged within
the gang, and those whose criminal exploits were unquestionable, in addition to the
respect given to the leaders, also commanded the highest respect in the hierarchic. The
Stone Crushers held to all these aspect of Jamaican Gangster-ism. However, they seemed
to have gone further and mastered the art of organization leadership fluidity.

Garfield 'Don' Sawyers

On April 26th 2006, a Sunday night, at about 9:30, a party of police officers from St.
James police Division surrounded a house in the community of Niagra. According to
police reports, they were “greeted by gunfire.” When the shooting cleared, a young man
who went by the name Don Sawyers was found nursing gunshot wounds. Garfield 'Don'
Sawyers, a product of Hendon in Norwood, an enclave of the Stone Crushers had
previously been placed on the Montego Bay police most wanted list.

The official police report: Sawyers was found clutching a Colt .38 revolver containing
four spent shells and three live rounds. The serial number of the weapon was erased.13

Delano 'Bigga Crime' Williams: Stone Crusher

Murder Practitioner

(s. Police cut down Montego Bay gangsters, May 23, 2006

Delano 'Bigga Crime' Williams, was “arguably the most brutal member of the gang....”14

Bigga Crime Williams, who grew up around Sun Valley Road, Glendevon and Norwood
communities of Montego Bay, was identified as one of the early leaders of the Stone
Crushers. He was reportedly, in keeping with what it takes to climb the leadership ladder,
a most vicious Stone Crusher murder practitioner. Only 22 years old when he was slain
by police bullets, Bigga Crime Williams, was as identified above, “arguably the most
brutal member of the gang....” At the time of his death, at such a young age, he had
allegedly participated in at least 10 murders. Numbered among the ten, at least one
double and a triple killing.15

Killings linked to Delano - The “Blood Lane” Killings

“I have a problem with the naming of some of the communities: … Blood Lane, …
Gully, … Gulf, … Shanty Town and so on because with that type of naming it already
stigmatize the area to be bad. I am going to put representation forward as it relates to the
naming of some of these communities.” Mexine Bissasor, then councillor for the
Norwood Division.16

On February 8th 2006, at about 4:15 p.m, brothers Senel Taylor, 40, Derrick Taylor, 45,
and Senel’s girlfriend, identified as Ireasha, were shot and killed at Senel’s home on
Felicity Road. Reportedly, all three victims were shot in the head, execution-style, either
made to kneel or lay on the ground and then bullet-ed in the head or neck area, at close
range. It is allegedly that Delano was one of four men who carried out this triple killing.
Although the official name of the road was charmingly, with a hint of sanctuary to its
meaning, Felicity Road, some residents had named it “Blood Lane.” Felicity Road was
therefore “notoriously known as “’Blood Lane.’” Not but ten days after those killings,
Blood Lane was again a-washed in blood, this time, the blood of a Nicholas 'Frostman'
Rose. Frostman was shot and killed. Delano name was again linked to this killing.17

Burnt remains found in a car

As gruesome as the triple killing, and the adding of Rose to his growing list of victims,
almost one month to the date of the killing of Rose, Delano was reported one of five
gunmen who abducted a common-law couple, Hercent James Richards, 36, and her
common-law husband Dwight Gray, 35, on the night of March 18 th 2006, from their
home, transported them to bushes off a known main road, Ironshore main road, shot and
then set their bodies ablaze in a car.

Three incidents of murder and already Delano had a body count of six victims.

In many circles, surely in law-enforcement circles, Delano was known as one who
relished beheading persons. Delano, therefore, should count as an extraordinaire
Jamaican serial killer.

The killing of Bigga Crime Williams

We regard the apprehension of Bigga Crime as significant in the dismantling of the

Stone Crusher gang
as we continue to pursue members of the other gangs in the parish”18
(Superintendent Warren Clarke, then commanding officer for the St. James police
division)

At about 11:45 p.m, on May 21st 2006, a Sunday, a police party, in Glendevon, a Crusher
enclave, was said to have been “on a special operation.” Sometime during those close to
the midnight hour, they engaged four men in a shoot-out, this after a car in which the men
were traveling refused to heed their command to “stop.” The car, a grey Toyota Corolla,
had been previously identified and considered a regular feature in Stone Crusher crimes.

The four men, the police reported, alighted from the vehicle, and opened fire on them.
The lawmen returned the fire and two men who later succumb to their injuries were found
nursing gunshot wounds after the shooting subsided. They were “pronounced dead” at
hospital. One of the dead men turned out to be, the beheader, Delano Bigga Crime
Williams, the other a Roy McLennon, 20, also of Norwood.

True to his reputation, a Colt AR15 A2 rifle, containing thirty-two 5.56mm cartridges,
was reportedly taken from his grasp. The gun’s serial number was given as SP248769,
which begs a question, was the police ever able to trace the originating source of this Colt
AR 15 rifle?

In addition to the rifle, additionally, live 5.56mm cartridges, were also recovered from
Delano’s person, as were a number of 5.56mm and 9mm spent shells. The magazine that
the rifle was fitted with at the time had a capacity of 50 rounds.

At the time of his death Williams was not only considered an elevated member of the
Stone Crushers but was likewise “elevated to the top of the St. James police most wanted
list,” and identified as a “primary lieutenant in the Stone Crusher gang.” A “coaster bus”
in which the police were traveling, was reportedly “badly damaged” by bullets fired by
the gunmen. Found in the vehicle that the four men were traveling in, and inventoried, the
police reported: two containers with gasoline, hacksaw blades, a jack hammer and
machetes.
From whence Bigga Crime Delano and his cronies were going or coming is anybody’s
guess. What is not guess-work is that it could only have or had resulted in mayhem.

Now the police no longer had Bigga Crime, the beheader, to contend with.

Michael 'Lassie' Forbes

(Star, July 7th 2006, Reward offered for St. James most wanted)

Michael 'Lassie' Forbes, if not a revered leader, would have been considered, a result of
his longevity, a senior member. In addition, Lassie Forbes would have gained some
gangland notoriety as he had escaped from captivity not but seven months after he had
been sentenced to 12 years for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.

As early as June of 2001 Forbes had come into contact with the system, both the police
and court. He had been convicted in a Montego Bay Gun Court and sentenced to 12
years for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. Thereafter, he ended up at a
prison named Tamarind Farm Correctional Centre, located in Spanish Town. This place
was anything but a secure place to hold a person with a conviction and sentence such as
Lassie.

On January 29, 2002, barely seven months after he had began serving his sentence;
Forbes decided that he had had enough of captivity. He “escaped.”

Following his escape, Lassie Forbes seemed to have conducted his criminal activities
quietly. However, his name also became linked to the February 8th 2006, Blood Lane
triple killings, and the shoot-out that left Bigga Crime Willaims and Roy McLennon dead.
Reportedly, Forbes was one of the other two men in that car that night.20

Almost five months to the day of the February 8 th 2006, Blood Lane triple killings, and
about six weeks after the March 21st 2006, shoot-out with the police, St. James, but more-
so Crusher’s Norwood enclave, awoke on July 3rd 2006, to the news that five persons had
been shot and killed in one continuous incident

The dead included, 43-year-old Patrick Ander-son, 29-year-old Natalie Ferguson, 57-
year-old Linda Malcolm and her common-law husband, 62-year-old Michael
Mgtbontaque, and their 20-year-old son, Michael Jr. What made it more frighten, the
“elderly couple,” 57 year old Mrs. Malcolm and 62 year old, Mr. Mgtbontaque, were not
caught in the part of stray bullets, no, the gunmen had kicked down their door and just
“sprayed them with bullets.” Most disturbingly, their killers also set their dwelling place
on fire.

The previous torching of the bodies of the common-law couple, the trademark beheading
victims surrounded by burning candles, the two containers of gasoline in the abandoned
car, now the setting of a fire to the dwelling after slaying this elderly couple, was clue
enough that fire may have been a Stone Crusher’s trademark, and seemingly had some
significance to the gang; a sort of calling card.

In the absence of hard evidence, speculation flew far and wide: Gang-related activities
had played some role where motive was concerned. What was not speculation is that
Forbes was implicated.

Huddersfield St. Mary is a long way from Glendevon St. James: The Killing of
Forbes

“The reputed leader of the notorious Stone Crusher gang in St James,

Michael Forbes, otherwise called 'Lassie', 32,
was killed after he allegedly pulled a firearm and pointed it at the police, ….”21

On Wednesday July 4th, not even a full day after the five killings in Norwood, at around
11:30 p.m, a police party stormed a house in a housing scheme called Huddersfield,
Oracabessa, a suburb in the parish of St. Mary.

Upon seeing the police, Forbes allegedly “pulled a firearm from his waistband and aimed
it at the lawmen, who returned the fire.” Riddled with bullets, Forbes was taken to the St
Ann's Bay hospital where he was pronounced dead. An inventory of his person, indicated
an outlaw prepared for D-day; a 9mm Beretta pistol and thirty one rounds of like
ammunition, 16 chambered in the weapon and a spare magazine with 15 rounds.
 Rohan 'Don' Gordon

(s. Star, July 7th 2006, Reward offered for St. James most wanted.”

Don Gordon was born Rohan Gordon on May 31st, 1981. On January 31 st 2003, while the
group was still known as the Renegades, Don Gordon, then 22 years old, already
recognized among his peers, and likewise the police, as a leader, was arrested and
charged with the murder of an eight month old child.

According to media reports, on January 27th 2003, “At about 9:05 pm …, little Navaljah
was with her parents at their shop along Leonie Avenue when they were pounced upon by
three gunmen who opened fire on them. The toddler was later pronounced dead at
hospital while her parents were admitted in serious condition.” Thereafter, the police
theorized that the intended victims were the parents of the child.

As if that was not rampage enough, Gordon was fingered in another killing, not but 12
hours after the killing of the infant, that of 32-year-old Primrose Brown; she was killed
around eight a.m. the next morning. Her indiscretion, she had “condemned” the killing of
the infant, most likely the night before when a crowd would have gathered at the earlier
shooting scene.

Within Don Gordon’s family, gangster-ism seems destined to go beyond just Gordon, as a
young brother, Jermaine Gordon, then only 11 years old when Don Gordon was arrested,
was set to follow in his foot-steps. This younger sibling would die of a police bullet, at
only 15 years old.

Even at this early stage of Don Gordon’s criminal exploits, and the group not yet re-
branded as Stone crusher, the police were all but begging persons to come forward with
evidence of the crimes allegedly committed by Gordon.

What would they do when it metamorphosed into the Stone Crusher? Many a JCf brass
whose careers were on the rise, were tempered when they ran up against the Stone
Crushers’ criminal network in St. James; among them would be Derrick Knight,
nicknamed “Cowboy,” then Deputy Superintendent Police with responsibility for St.
James.

Deputy Superintendent Derrick Cowboy Knight

Following Gordon’s January 31st arrest, DSP Knight, foolhardy, instead of relying on
evidence driven by scientific methods, all but begged persons to provided information.

"We are not exposing (Gordon's) photograph. But anybody who has come in contact with
him and who he has committed an offense against can come forward now and feel
satisfied that they will be protected.

"We have this man in jail and we are going to do everything in our power, with (the
public's) assistance, to keep him there.

"With (Gordon) behind bars and three of his lieutenants, things should be back to normal
as it was in the first two weeks of January.

"Gordon will face other identification parades as it relates to other offenses, some
committed last year. This is a man who has been on the run for the past year and half.

"We have already executed a warrant on him for shooting, away from the murder, and he
will be facing at least five other identification parades in the coming week....”23
Fast forward and three years later, Don Gordon was somehow in the streets where in
April of 2006, the police had named him and Lassie as leaders within the by now
rebranded Stone Crushers, and placed a bounty of $500,000, on the head of Gordon.
Eight months later, in December of 2006, then Police Commissioner, Lucius Thomas had
cause, no doubt a result of Gordon’s continuous assault on the citizens of St. James, to
report a 100 percent increase in the reward for Gordon’s removal from society. The
$500,000 was hiked to $1-million; more dead than alive for all some lawmen cared.
Gordon was also elevated to “among the four most wanted men in St James.”

The Killing of Rohan 'Don' Gordon

On May 20th 2007, almost one year to the day that Bigga Crime Williams was killed (May
21st 2006) by the police, at about 12:35 pm in Paradise, Norwood, police reported that
they were “on motorized patrol in the community when they noticed a beige Toyota
Corolla motorcar (a similar car as when Delano was killed), with four men aboard. They
signaled the car to stop and when it did, all four men alighted and fired at the police,
damaging a service vehicle and injuring two policemen. As to be expected, reportedly,
fire was returned and thereafter, Don Gordon was found suffering from gunshot wounds;
taken to hospital he was “pronounced dead.” An inventory of his person revealed a
Taurus 9mm pistol, serial #96099, loaded with several 9-mm cartridges. Again, was the
weapon e-traced?

In the aftermath, it was reported that the then commanding officer of Area One, Clifford
Blake, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), in a “jubilant” mood, remarked that the
killing of Gordon was a “significant achievement in our effort to control crime in the
Montego Bay area and more so to get rid of the Stone Crusher Gang.”24

On Sunday June 17th 2007, Don Gordon was laid to rest, no doubt in style, at Dovecot
Memorial Park in St. James, vault #771.
 s. Dovecott Memorial Park website www.dovecotofstjames.com

Damion Vassell – the cop killer?

Policemen at the murder scene of Sergeant Alan Lindsay, who was gunned down in
Glendevon, Montego Bay. (Ambushed - Montego Bay thugs kill policeman - 20th cop
slain since January, Jamaica Gleaner, December 3, 2007, Nagra Plunkett
Photo by Nagra Plunkett)

"The Sergeant was driving in his uniform, in a marked police vehicle and he was gunned down
and drawn out of the car. When we reached there he was in the gutters in his uniform like any...I
don't want to say it. It shows you the sort of lack of respect our citizens have for law and order."
Superintendent Steve McGregor, commanding officer for the St James police. 25

On December 1st 2007, 53-year-old Sergeant Allan Lindsay, attached to the St. james
Motorised Patrol Unit, was shot and killed in Glendevon, Norwood. Reports are that,
about 4:15 p.m., Sergeant Lindsay was driving along a road in Dallas, Glendevon, in a
marked service vehicle, in uniform, when armed men opened fire on him. It is said that
after the gunmen wounded Sergeant Lindsay, they pulled him from the marked service
car and took his service pistol and his bullet-proof vest. He was taken to the Cornwall
Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.26

Open season on police officers

At the time of his death, Sergeant Lindsay counted as the 19th cop to have been murdered
since January, and the second police officer who had been slain by criminals in Montego
Bay in less than a month. Previously, on November 11, Constable Cornel Lewis of the St.
James Police Tactical Response Unit, was killed by gunmen in Mango Walk, Montego
Bay. At the time Constable Lewis counted as the third policeman to have been shot dead
by gunmen in less than a week; the previous Thursday, Assistant Commissioner of Police
Gilbert Kameka and Constable Valentino Chambers had been shot and killed by gunmen
in separate incidents in the Corporate area.

Following the killing of Sergeant Lindsay, the police went on a hunt for his killers.

The Killing of Vassell

"Damion Vassell is suspected to be the main shooter in Sergeant Lindsey's murder earlier in the
month. We are also following some data we have picked up from the scene that has linked this
man to the murder of Cornel Lewis that was done earlier on in the month." Superintendent
Steve McGregor.27

On December 13th 2007, Vassell along with two others, alleged Stone Crusher gang members,
were shot and killed. According to police reports, at about 1:30 a.m., Thursday, December 13th,
a joint police-military operation was carried out in the Moneague Housing Scheme, St. Ann. On
the approach of the joint force, to a house, they were greeted with gun-fire. The fire was
returned and after the shooting subsided, three men were found suffering from gunshot
wounds. They were taken to the St. Ann's Bay hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Reportedly, two other Stone Crusher members were held following the gun-battle; three
firearms, a 9mm Browning pistol, a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver, two bullet proof
vests and 49 rounds of assorted ammunition were reportedly seized; among them the gun that
was reportedly taken from the body of Sergeant Lindsey, as was Lindsey’s bullet-proof vest. 28

The Man with the hit list - Richard 'Richie Blacks' Lawn

As early as 2007, it was being circulated that the Stone Crushers had a list of persons
marked for death, among them police officers.29

“A hit list was found on the body of Richard Lawn. For security reasons we cannot show
the list. The intention is to find these individuals, question them and inform them that
they are on a hit list."30 (Merrick Watson, superintendent in charge of the St James Police
Division)

On April 2nd 2010, Richard 'Richie Blacks' Lawn, reputedly a “top-tier member” of the
Stone Crusher, was shot and killed by police; a Beretta 9 mm pistol with six rounds was
taken from his body. At the time of his death, allegedly, the police found on his person a
“hit list” containing the names of civilians and police officers.31

CEDRIC DOGGIE MURRAY – WHO AM I?

 “He was fingered in at least 30 murders committed in St James alone,
and his name was among the island's 10 most wanted criminals in excess of five years,
as a result it comes as a bit of surprise that at one point in his life,
deceased gang boss Cedric 'Doggie' Murray was a Christian.” 32

That Murray had at one time being a “Christian,” is not so much a lucid moment, after all
in Jamaican dynamics, many killers had grown up in the church. What is a surprise is that
Murray was a writer of sorts who kept, what journalism school would call, a diary of
sorts. As a result, when such researchers and or investigative journalist come along, Murray will
no doubt be counted among the few Jamaican gangsters who kept or attempted to keep a diary
of his outlaw days. He even considered publishing a book, had he accomplished this feat, it
probably would have borne the title:

Sunrise

“Doggie” Murray was born Cedric Murray on August 12 th 1973. At the time of his birth, his family
had seemingly laid down roots in Glendevon, Norwood, a place where, at the time of Murray’s
birth, in 1973, may well have been considered a nice place to live, if one liked it nice and quiet.

Attending St. James High

Reportedly, Murray attended, among other schools, St. James High school, and seemingly, while
still a student at St. James, and with not much outlet for young energies, Murray along with a
brother of his, Prince, joined the Renegades. During those early Renegade years, not only would
Murray have probably participated in a few illegal acts, tinged with politics, if against no one
else, Crushers “perennial enemies,” the Piranha, of neighbouring, Bottom Pen.

"Many would wonder how this all started or how it came to all of this.
It started from 12 years old or 11,
and the lifestyle just grew rapidly into many criminal behaviour,
and prison taught me well — positive and negative." 33
Although political violence had subsided some, tribal political wars was still a feature of Jamaican
landscape, and therefore, the early days of the 1990s, in Jamaica was not necessarily the best
place for a youngster to be.
Come 1990, Murray would have been around 17 years old and looking to leave St. James High, at
which time he would, no doubt, become a full-fledged member of the Renegade, and would
have, as already mentioned, committed a few acts against the Piranhas. Probably more
important, during those formative years, he would have experienced, either as a witness, heard
or otherwise, came to know that Jamaica was a very dangerous place for any Jamaican inner-city
idle young man. Young men, who locked into communities where the lines drawn were coloured
in orange or green, had two choices, you either supported the bell or the fist no in-between, no
standing on the sidelines.

In that Jamaica, violence or the specter thereof was ever present. It was this Jamaica that
Murray left behind, for what turned out to be a short sojourn in the United States.

Migration to the United States

"He was ... a stepper ‘(murderer)’ in America, no stranger to killing people." 34 citation

Whether it was “pressure from the police,” the fear of prison, or the lure of easily obtained
illegal drug money which was, in the early 1990s, been raked him by Jamaicans who were
involved in illegal drugs trade in the U.S., Murray, “fresh out of St James High”, like young men
from so many inner-cities, found his way to the U.S. 35
It has been hinted that Murray was anything but a good citizen during his U.S. sojourn. However,
this notion is anything but far-fetched when one takes into consideration that at the time Murray
migrated to the U.S., as a Renegade, Jamaican gangs in the U.S., involved in the drugs trade,
were all armed to the teeth, and as an extension, extra hardware, sophisticated and in many
cases, heavy weaponry, was been shipped to brethren in Jamaica. By extension, if this is the
crowd that Murray joined up with, he would have fit in nicely, and became a good soldier.

A soldier’s soldier

Murray would prove in later years that he was what one would consider, a soldier’s soldier; one
who could fit easily in any army. A soldier who kept a diary so that exploits can be accurately
recorded when the events are fresh. He exhibited loyalty to his outlaw peers, of the highest
degree in bad-man parlance; he stood in battle with those he considered brethren; he proved
dependable even to the extent that it exposed him, which brought him onto the radar of the
Jamaican police, long after many Renegades had long come to the attention of agencies within
the Jamaican police who placed emphasis on bringing “wanted “men “to justice.” He was, in
addition, considered a mentor to others:

“His associates from the infamous Stone Crusher gang for which he was the reputed top
lieutenant … described him as a fearless leader who was also like a father figure to them”; a true
'warrior'; ‘a yute weh love reason bout life, him will just sit down and just start chat bout fi him
life and life pon a whole...’”36

By the close of the 1990s, with illegal and sophisticated guns reaching the hands of the by now
named Stone Crusher, from mainly, the United States, for which Murray probably had a hand in,
whether by making donations towards purchase, money for shipping and or clearing, or
otherwise, the now Stone Crushers, “unleashed a murderous onslaught, not only against their
perennial enemies, the Piranha gangsters, but against anyone who crossed their path.” As these
“Jamaican Wars” that Murray had left behind in Jamaica, raged, his brother Prince became
numbered among its statistics. It was in one such war that his brother, Prince, was killed.37

***
Murray returns to Jamaica

Murray did not last long in the U.S. Maybe it was that the pull of home, Jamaica was a more
easier place to be a “gangster”, won over the push of foreign; U.S. authorities had finally
identified and were paying close attention to the Jamaican underworld and its running's, mainly
because of the sheer number of murders and shooting incidents that were taking place in many
American cities. Jamaican gangsters were not distinguishing, they had taken “cawn ketch Quco
yu ketch him shut” to foreign shores (if you can’t catch your enemy, his or her family and or
friends is game enough) and many times shooting incidents involving Jamaicans, would include
multiple “innocent” victims.
Whatever it was, Murray returned home; deported from the United States after the Renegades
had re-branded into the Stone Crushers.

If Murray had really gone among the Jamaican underworld while on his U.S. sojourn, he would
have been familiar with the fact that a sub-group of Jamaicans, first those who gone abroad in
the late seventies, and early eighties, had long gone from only a few man have guns to
everybody now had access to guns. Therefore, he would have graduated, while on his U.S.
sojourn, right alongside the Jamaican Stone Crushers going from knives, machetes, and stones,
to serious hardware.

At the time Murray returned to Jamaica, Calvert, Bigga Crime Williams, Lassie Forbes, Don
Sawyers, Don Gordon, Blacks and others, would have been the guys at the helm of the Stone
Crushers. A Jamaican homegrown, Murray, notwithstanding that he had gone to the US at what
could be considered an early age, would not have had any trouble fitting in with the bunch at
home. After all, any foreign exploits of his, would have found its way home, colored as those
who had brought it back whether such exploits had been passed on to them, or they had first-
hand knowledge of them. However they wanted to see it and or heard it they were free to pass
it on as they saw fit.

With such antecedents, Murray who returned “with blood in his eyes." Reportedly, “quickly
developed a reputation as a killer,” among his former Renegades now Stone Crushers. 38
Avenging the death of his brother

True to his Jamaican roots, no slight is ever forgotten, worse of all, the killing of a family member.
Where the victim had brothers of the blood, it was their duty to take revenge, otherwise if they
had “respect” before they would lose it, and if they had not respect, they would be further
without respect. In this instant, revenge would even be more in the cards where those identified
as responsible, Pirarahana, represented opposing forces.

It is not know if Murray murdered anyone in revenge for the killing of his brother, however the
kind of killings he was alleged to favour, contract killings, it might well be that he targeted real or
perceived persons behind his killing of his brother.

Cedric Murray - The Jamaican contract killer

"He wasn't into the day-to-day gang war, and he wasn't into the killing of women and children.
He was more into contract killing and extortion."39

A few of the leading Stone Crusher hierarchy with Bigga Crime Williams leading the way, had,
reportedly, at this period in time, fully engaged in driving fear into all Crusher enemies and
perceived enemies, including scammers. Bigga Crime and others were literally, almost daily,
gorging themselves in gruesome killings, whose main feature, as we have been called to witness,
Delano in particular, consisted of beheading victims and burning down first and foremost, but
not exclusively, dwellings. Murray on the other hand, seemed drawn to contract killings coloured
by extortion. Therefore, in his role as a contract killer, Murray reportedly spent lots of time
traveling around Jamaica, while the other Stone Crushers, Bigga Crime, Lassie, and Blacks
committed most of their killings in St. James. And thereby “quickly topped the most-wanted list
in St James,” Murray, probably more of a national threat than the others, operated under the
radar.40

Like the infamous American contract serial killer extraordinaire, Richard Kuklinski, who although
he allegedly mainly did contract killing for a U.S. Mafia family, Kuklinski never got too involved in
their every day gangland war, Murray likewise, allegedly, did not have much interest in day-to-
day Stone Crusher gang war. He must have found that too un-challenging. He was therefore
more interested into targeted killings for profit tinged with other killings for the thrill; some of
the victims would no doubt be collateral victims.

His choice of killings, instead of bringing additional heat to the group, actually did the opposite.
Many a police investigations must have gone south, trying to unravel the kinds of killings that
Murray was committing seemingly island-wide. His travels and travails brought the added benefit
of links with other outlaws far-and- wide, “links” that would come in handy.
WANTED
Although the police claim that Murray had appeared on their radar from as early as 2002, it
seems that it was not until the February 2006 Blood Lane Killings that Murray became a feature
of wanted circulars. One of the first identified him as wanted only in connection with that triple
killing.

Seemingly it was this deviation from the usual quieter contract killings that shined the spotlight
on Murray.
Committing more close to home killings, Murray now featured in shootout with the police. He
was reportedly one of the four men who were traveling in the car that Sunday night of May 21 st
2006, when Bigga Crime Williams and McLennon were slain by the police in that raging shoot-
out.41

Murray if he was actually one of the occupants, would not have come away without firing
whatever weapon he was then carrying that night, even though in a January 2008 police bad
men confrontation, he seemed to have left, the battle ground for strategic reason before the
shooting started. For sure he would not have left had the situation been otherwise. Not the
Murray who, during the May 2010 security forces “West Kingston Operation," as he poetically
put it:

"… I fired my AK-47 until my fingers were numb.

I ate gunpowder until my throat was sore...." 42

Having now come onto the radar of the police in St. James, Murray put to use the links he had
made with outlaws in other places.

Refuge in Tivoli

Following the mention of his name in the Blood Lane killings, and the shoot-out with the police,
the St James police began to hound him. No longer could he just melt in any St. James crowd.
Surely after the police had on July 4 th 2007, somehow tracked Lassie to St. Mary and killed him,
no Crusher enclave in St. James was safe.

Murray, Calvert, and lesser Stone Crusher figures, more likely a result of Murray’s good-will,
requested and were granted “refuge in Tivoli Gardens where they were welcomed with open
arms by fellow gangsters.” Nothing to that! A contract killer such as Murray and a smooth
operator such as Calvert, would no doubt have been welcome as good company to any group of
Jamaican gangsters. Of importance, during their sojourn they would not be living off the spoils
of Tivoli gangsters, a contentious point when gangsters hold up in other gangsters enclaves. No,
they could not be considered leaches, they came with their own resources, money was not an
issue, and in addition, they traveled with their own weaponry. So it was not a thing of coming
among the Tivoli outlaws because they did not have access to weaponry. They were not into
borrowing other gangster’s guns. In Jamaican gangster world this is considered demeaning.

However, all those positives, were off-set by one negative; there was some past bad-blood.
Tivoli gangsters had long had it that although Murray was all right, he was not politically
feathered as they were, which might have led him to commit political sacrilege. The Tivoli
underground had it that Murray had “issued death threats to a St James JLP member of
Parliament.”43

Any discussion between Murray and Tivoli outlaws on this issue, must have been of some
moment, because just as in many U.S. Mafia circles, where it was a no no to even threaten to kill
a member of the law-enforcement community, Tivoli gangsters did not take kindly to Murray or
anyone threatening politicians at the rank of MP, and surely not one from the JLP. That was a no
no where they were concerned. So fundamental was this moment that Murray wrote about it in
his diary:

"The politician that say I threaten him ...

I have never seen him face to face or ever spoken to him
and I am no gang member or leader. I am being used to clean their slate”44

“'Flood Norwood with cops, JDF'”, Jamaica Observer, Keril Wright, Saturday, June
10, 2006

“Staggered by a wave of gruesome murders in the gritty Norwood community since the
start of this year, Jamaica Labour Party Deputy Leader Horace Chang yesterday urged the
authorities to flood the area with police and soldiers as part of a three-pronged approach
to stop the bloodshed.”

Sitting as it was in North West St. James, Norwood, Crushers enclave of all enclaves, had
Dr. Horace Chang as its sitting Member of Parliament.

After giving its opening commentary, “staggered by a wave of crime,” the article then
quoted Dr. Chang:

"The police and military need to go into the community immediately to restore order and
keep the peace ...
"We need to immediately introduce military patrols who have the training
and equipment to deal with these difficult areas where the police cannot get to go into."

No doubt, mindful of the bottom-line, Dr. Chang was further quoted:

 "The government of the day doesn't seem to take the crime situation seriously.
“If the issues surrounding the inner-cities are not resolved, they will destroy tourism."

Bloody Sunday in January: Operation Calvert et al Stone Crushers

With the long arm of mostly Calvert, the chess master, still moving pieces in Norwood,
and learning that not only Calvert, but also Murray and other Stone Crusher gang
members were holed up in Tivoli, come January of 2008, the police, with intentions
“primarily to capture Calvert,” decided to make an unusual incursion into Tivoli.45
“Operation Kingfish, in a press statement yesterday, said Calvert was the main target of
the recent operation in Tivoli Gardens by the security forces in which five men, who
allegedly engaged police and soldiers in a shoot-out in the tough West Kingston
community, were fatally shot. Two members of the security forces were shot and injured
during that raid.”46

Maybe a result of the previous alleged threat by Murray against MP Chang, whatever it
was, like a stab in the back, but not unknown in the Kingston underworld, after-all, “dem
nu come from bout ya,” it is alleged that while the police were planning their incursion,
somehow Tivoli leading gangsters got wind of it, and “Top-ranking Tivoli leaders were
negotiating Calvert's release to the security forces in an effort to avoid a confrontation”;
maybe they were also considering turning Murray over.47

Murray, ever the dedicated soldier, joined Calvert in fleeing Tivoli, better for them to be
on home-turf where they could trust their fellow Crushers, than stranded in Tivoli with all
and sundry gangsters with whom they had not the bond of brotherhood; bonds cemented
from growing up together and sharing community-hood.

Reportedly, shortly after Murray, Calvert and other Stone Crushers fled Tivoli “the
security forces stormed the house where they were ... staying.” When the shooting ended,
“five civilians” lay dead, while a member of the Jamaica Defense Force and two
members of the Jamaican Constabulary Force, reportedly sustained injuries.

Two years after that Bloody Sunday in January, what can be deemed credible evidence
was presented that at least one, possible two of the five persons were killed in cold-blood.
Quite surprisingly, the evidence came from a member of the JDF. This soldier, who was
part of the operation, testified that he witnessed, he saw with his own two eyes, a police
officer kill at least one of the men in cold-blood. He must have been believed as charges
were later proffered against several police officers who participated in that operation. At
least one who escaped based on a technicality in law. Coincidentally, the officer who was
identified as he who had committed at least one of the cold-blooded killings, was himself,
not but months later, slain by gunmen. Poetic justice some would say.48

***
On Monday January 21st, 2008, not but eight days after the Tivoli operation, Calvert was
captured in Wood Groove, a place described as a “rustic rural community.”49

No Man is an Island

Without the company of Calvert, and Murray no doubt thinking that Calvert would not be
out anytime soon, what with the multiple number of murders that Calvert was named in,
Murray now more frequently took refuge outside of Crusher sphere of influences with
Kingston gangsters.

Although once strained, in the world of gangsterism the relationship can never be trusted
as it was in the beginning, Murray, if he was going to be in Kingston, would no doubt
have to mend fences in Tivoli, notwithstanding the attempted stab in the back. Forgiven
but not forgotten, respect would be due on both sides. So once again, Murray it seems
took up refuge in what was then still reasonably safe Tivoli. Bloody January pushed into
the past, dense West Kingston was always considered reasonable safe for a gangster, of
Murray’s standing, to move around. However, this time around it would not be as cozy in
the world of wanted man cat and mouse in West Kingston. The long arm of the law was
slowly engulfing the West Kingston arena.

The last day in May of 2009, found Murray’s thought straying to thoughts of writing a
book.

"My isolation from society gets farther each year.

For now I am at ease but for me things are subject to change anytime.
I should really write a book but I couldn't be real honest so it wouldn't be a best seller."50

The Tivoli Incursion

“The law may upset reason but reason must never upset the law” James Clavell

As it became clear that not even political maneuverings could upset the law, and that
police and soldiers would be entering Tivoli in numbers never witnessed before,
battalion-style, en-massed, Murray's loyalty to the underworld, specifically Dudus Coke,
came to the fore:

“...He convinced members of the Stone Crusher gang to travel to Kingston to help to
defend Dudus against the security forces. The recruited men and high-powered rifles
owned by the Stone Crusher gang were taken to Tivoli Gardens.”51

D-day May 23rd 2010

Then came D-day, May 23rd of 2010. After living thorough what Murray, a cold-blooded
killer described as a “raging gun-battle,”:

“... I escape one of the last from where I was under crazy gun fire....”52

“It was a raging gun battle a day I won't forget and such tragedy for Jamaica more than
75 people dies by babylon,
 man, baby and woman...53
Even describing the kind of weapon that he was armed with:

"I fired my AK-47 until my fingers were numb.

I ate gunpowder until my throat was sore.”54
That event, as it did all who participated therein, seemed to have psychologically affected
Murray, to the point where he resigned himself that friendly suicide, or self-inflicted
suicide, was a better option than police induced suicide.

Suicide
"My days is coming.
If my friends do it it will be quick
but if is babylon it will be a day of war ...
Every day I regret how this all began,
sometimes I just want to pull the trigger ...."55

Before the break of dawn

Exactly one month to the day of the West Kingston operation, Murray had reason to
pause and write, as that morning a near miss had taken place at a famous law-
enforcement hour; before the break of dawn.

June 23, 2010.

"The morning began at 4:30 am.

I was asleep when babylon came but by the grace of God I escape.
The tracks are ruff.
My life right now is very ruff,
each day way different from what I am use to at my age."56

Murray was less than two months away from his thirty-seven birthday. He seemed to
have come to some realization that thirty-seven was not a prime ganster age.

A month respite seemed to have been the order of the day, but July brought with it tension
and more tension, including a false alarm, but Murray was at a stage in his descent that all
alarms raised had to be first proved false rather taken for false at the outset.

"Well, today is a day false alarm about babylon coming,

pure running again.
It seems like I just can't get in shape.
Life in the hills of St Andrew is very ruff, day and night babylon is close,
nuff movements at times."57

July was indeed looking up to be a bad-luck month:

July 14, 2008:

"Nothing has improved much. I am still living but my life feel wasted,
this is no life for anyone but this is the real truth of a gangster in my condition,
lonely and don't know who to trust."58
"I have to rise above my circumstances.
I just can't lay down. I am now in exiled while babylon a curfew every where...."59

July 25, 2010

"As I sit here and reflect on my present life,
yesterday [Saturday the 24th] I had to run to the hills and wet in the rain, false alarm,
so many of those,
this is a wasted life.
I don't even have a roof over my head.
 I am all over,
I miss my kids dem so much,
life at times can be like the quick sand,60
"My life is full of issues,
how I long for a real good sleep, just lay down and sleep away.
But my lifestyle doesn't give me that luxury, all because of the path that I am walking
on."61

All these events would have unnerved him, causing him to further depend on mobility;
mobility when the trap is closing, says to the hunted, running will keep me alive that
much longer. Don’t stay in any one place for too long; his numerous escapades would
have reinforced this thinking.

As July came to a close, it seemed he was now in full flight, the security blanket had long
spread beyond Kingston, as after the West Kingston inferno, police divisions all over the
island were giving no quarters.

The closing days of July found Murray pondering:

July 28, 2010

"I wonder how many places will this life I live take me
and how often will I see my kids.
“My life is very unstable and complex.
“It's... very difficult, at times boring and very frustrating.62
“Today is just another day of mixed emotions.
No one knows my daily struggles each day.
“I fight a deep inner fight of fear, depression and anger.
“I had so much to offer but I allow my feeling to drive me to anger
and this is part of the result,
life of a fugitive.63

Police Killing fields

If one were to examine the sheer number of police killings of gunmen, or those so
perceived, in the aftermath of May 2010, one could readily identify that some occurrence
in the society was serving as a contributing factor to the now almost daily police killings.
The police it seems had a notion that they could wipe out Jamaican gangsterism, just as
gangsters had notions that they could wipe out all police.

August 2010 - Meet me at the Border

August 12th 2010, dawned a new day. The dawning hours found Murray on the road. The
light of day would see him marking another birthday.

He would be thirty seven years old. He had lived through many a shoot-outs but one
shoot-out is one too many as along with chance comes opportunity. It would be another
chance opportunity for the police to bring him to their brand of justice.

"I have seen all my friends killed by the police in cold blood or shoot out.
I make no excuse for my past. I am a real gangster hard-core ...
Babylon has labeled me a threat to the society because they can’t kill me
and the people love me,"64

Where Murray was headed that August Morning, and what had brought him to the border
of Manchester and Clarendon remains with him and maybe others who knew of his
movements. Wherever, whatever, Murray found himself driving along a road at about
7:30 in the morning.

Sunset

The gory details lies with the police, know is that at 37 years-old, Doggie Murray, who
was born on August 12th 1973, lay dead on August 12th 2010. Maybe there was or is some
august meaning to all this.

The man police sources reportedly described as “slippery,” (hard man fi dead Jamaicans
would call him); the man unafraid to fire his AK 47, nine lives and all, was laid low “by
the law." His “best-friend” that morning, a Sig Saucer Pro handgun at his side.

“...My gun is my best friend, we are always together, always".65

This time around it seems that the barrage of gunshots from the law-enforcement detail,
had disabled Murray, had not allowed him a chance to fire his Sig Sauer; there were no
reports of spent shells found or extra ammo on his person. A man said to be Murray’s
driver, as drivers usually do, escaped, maybe he got to fire his weapon, and thereby was
able to chart an escape route. The police were however confident that they more than
likely had wounded him.

Notwithstanding evidence pointing that the police may have caught him by complete
surprise, the aftermath was, however, described by reporters, as “a daring daylight gun
battle during a police operation at the border of Manchester and Clarendon.”66

Probably it was so as Murray had professed with memories of August 2008 and May
2010 providing background thoughts:

"I say if I am ever cornered I shall fight until the end….”67

Robert 'Bobboo' Harding – The Financier?

Harding a by-product of Glendevon reputedly “the overseas financier” of the Stone Crusher, had
migrated to the United States, where he remained “for several years.”

Wherever the truth lies or is hidden, in October of 2012, Harding was cornered in Glendeveon
and killed by the police, just three weeks after he had returned to Jamaica, by way of
deportation.

In the aftermath of his death, several “friends and relatives” angered by his killing, “staged a
protest in Glendevon.” According to the protesters, Harding killing was a case of extrajudicial
killing. Reportedly, “The police went into the house, held him and ordered the other family
members out of the building. They (the police) forced him into the bathroom and shot and killed
him.”

According to the police version, Harding was a fugitive from justice as before he had fled to the
United States, he was “one of the major enforcers” in the Stone Crusher. In addition, while in
the U.S. Harding was a Stone Crusher “financier.” Furthermore, he was “one of the main players
behind the bloody split in the Stone Crusher gang, which resulted in a spate of murders in the
Glendevon area in 2010.” At 35 years-old Bobbo Harding was dead! 68

Eldon Calvert – stone Crusher Leader Extraordinaire?

In November of 2007, the police placed a reward of one million dollars bounty on the
head of Calvert, identifying him as among the “Island’s Most wanted.” The circular
noted that Calvert was wanted “on several counts of murder and shootings committed in
2005 and 2006.”

Killings directly linked to Calvert

September 10, 2006, the gun slaying of Robert Green, of Salem, St. James, the operator
of a small restaurant, a “cook shop” .
September 2006, the killing of 4 persons in his hometown, Meghie Top, Salt Spring, St
James - Cansie Jarrett, Eldon Ledgister, Rupert Green and Horace Daley.
October 2006, a triple killing in the same community.
November 13, 2006, killing of Artley Campbell, an alleged eye-witness to the shooting of
Robert Green.
November 2006, attack on a police car in Salt Spring. Three police officers were injured
in that incident.
December 2006, a double killing, a taxi operator Errol Dixon, and a shopkeeper Ramer
Reid at Buck Toe Lane, Salt Spring.
He was further implicated in the killing of five persons in one continuous event - Ewan
Cole, Devron Harris, Lloyd Ishmael, Lestin Morris and a Ransford McFarlane in Flower
Hill near Salt Spring. In addition, Harris was beheaded and his head dumped nine miles
away from the scene of the murders. That attack was said to be a reprisal for the murder
of Calvert's brother the previous January.

The capture of Calvert

On Monday January 21st, 2008, almost two months after the one million dollar bounty
was place on his head, Calvert was captured, by members of Operation Kingfish. His
capture occurred at the usual special police operation hours, before dawn. Contrary to
what many had figured, his arrest was effectuated without much fanfare, in a place
described as “this rustic rural community,” Wood Groove, St James, near Wait-a-Bit in
Trelawney. Reportedly Calvert “wept when he was held by detectives and begged the
police not to kill him.” On the other-hand, one resident was reportedly quoted, “We don't
want no wanted man here."69

At the time of his capture, Calvert was, for all intent and purpose, in the league of a serial
killer. Over a short period spanning less than two years, Calvert was implicated in at least
sixteen (16) murders, which included at least one killing where the victim was beheaded.

Calvert on trial
One of the murders, for which Calvert was wanted, and of which the police and office of
the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) though they could convict Calvert on, was that
of Robert Green, the deceased cook shop operator.

Calvert’s trial on that case, began in the St. James’ Home Circuit Court, presided over by
Justice Gloria Smith, a senior judge of the Home Circuit Court system. To prove that
Calvert and his two co-defendants, his brother, music band operator Gleason Calvert, and
a Michael Heron, had killed Green, the prosecution was relying on a statement from an
Artley Campbell. They were relying on Campbell’s statement instead of his live
testimony because Campbell was not around to give evidence in persons. Campbell, an
alleged witness to the killing of Green, was himself shot and killed on November 13,
2006.

Detective Sergeant Michael Sirjue

Detective Sergeant Michael Sirjue, the officer in charge of the investigation, was called
by the prosecution to do two primary things, testify that Campbell had given an eight
page statement to the police naming Calvert and his two co-defendants as the men who
had murdered Green, and two, that the signatory was indeed Campbell.

Sirjue came with credentials. He was not just any old investigator, he was a supervisor at
the Montego Bay Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), who had supervised many a
police officers in criminal prosecutions, and had himself testified in many a prior cases.

The way things were shaping up, it seems that it would be on his words that a jury would
decided Calvert and his co-defendants fate. However, having previously received the
eight page statement sharp witted defense lawyers Roy Fairclough, Trevor HoLyn,
Tamika Spence and Chumu Paris had thought something wrong, according to Fairclough:
"...We could see that what was 14.10.06, the left hand side of the zero on the 10 was a
little thick, seeming to suggest that it had been an 11."

Thereafter, the defense attorneys had contracted the services of handwriting expert
Beverly East. By the time the trial started they had East's report as an ace. Of this the
prosecution had no clue. The prosecution would be blindsided.

The prosecution attempted to put the statement into evidence. However, the defence
objected, noting that it had evidence that the statement was a fake. The jurors were sent
out of the courtroom to facilitate a voir dire (a trial within a trial) to determine the
authenticity of the statement.

The prosecution was served with East's report, which stated in part that the persons who
had written the statement was also the persons who had signed it.

This Beverly East was not just any old document examiner, she was recognized in the
field of hand-writing experts, as first-class.

Beverley East – The Grapholigist

Beverley East was born on May 31st 1953 in Kingston, Jamaica. A graphologist, a court-
qualified forensic document examiner and author, East attended Westminster Kingsway
College in London, graduating with A-levels in English Language, Literature and German
and O-levels in British Economic and Social History, German, Italian, English Literature
and Language, Sociology. Thereafter, East attended the College of Distributive Trades in
London and earned a degree in CAM Dip (Marketing, PR and Advertising). She began
studying graphology at the International Graphoanalysis Society and was certified in
1989. She earned her Master's in Graphoanalysis from the International Graphoanalysis
Society.

In 1993, East became a Certified Questioned Document Examiner (QDE) for the National
Bureau of Questioned Document Examiners in New York, NY. East was instructed in
Forensic Document Examination by Felix Klein (1911–1994), the founder of the National
Society for Graphology and the founder of the National Bureau of Document Examiners.

She authenticated handwriting on the labels of 1,700-item butterfly collection assembled

by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace for the then-owner of the collection, attorney Robert
Haggestad, who purchased the collection for $600. Haggestad asked East to authenticate
the handwriting, which she did. The collection was later purchased by the Smithsonian
for a substantial sum ($4.5 million). East has also been asked by the media to comment
on the handwriting of news worthy events. In 1998, "The Reliable Source", a respected
Washington Post column, asked her to review Monica Lewinsky’s handwriting. East was
also asked to comment on handwriting samples from the anthrax mailings case for a
National Geographic Channel documentary.

East was awarded the Flori Roberts – Ladies First Trailblazer award in 2002, for being
the first woman of color to be qualified to and practice graphology and QDE.71

This was the credentials that the prosecution came up against.

This stark revelation of a possible case of forgery, to say the least, brought the trial to a
halt. The justice system, the prosecution in this case, in turmoil, frequested, and the court
granted, an adjournment to allow the prosecution to consult its own expert. To the
prosecution’s, dismay, its own expert, Deputy Superintendent William Smiley, gave the
prosecution the sad news, Sirjue was in deeded a forger, and to the court’s consternation
he had attempted to defraud the justice system.

***

No doubt a result of the reputation of the suspects, Calvert in particular, Campbell had
not given a written statement to Sirjue. However, taking what Campbell had told him,
Sirjue a 26-year police veteran, proceeded to write out a statement, all of eight pages, in
which Calvert, his brother and Heron were “fingered” in the killing of Green. At the
bottom of each page, Sirjue affixed the signature A Campbell, and dated the pages
November 14, 2006. But as we heard, 24 hours before that statement was reportedly
written and signed by Sirjue, Campbell was shot to death at his cook shop in Meggie Top
Hill in Salt Spring. Upon learning this, Sirjue altered the November date on the forged
statement to read October 14, 2006.

Sirjue flees the island

Tipped off or otherwise, when the case resumed, three days later, the prosecution was left
with egg splattered all over its face. Not only was the evidence proffered by Sirjue false,
Sirjue had like so many others, on the other side of the law, that he, Sirjue, had pursued,
fled from justice. Reportedly he had left on a flight the afternoon, that the prosecution
had written to his boss, the police commissioner, to arrest and charge him with various
crimes, perversion of justice and forgery heading the list.

The case was in essence, dead in the water. The Director of Prosecution herself was
called upon to inform the Court that the case could not proceed against Calvert and his
co-defendants.

Justice Gloria Smith - “This is a very sad day in the history of justice.”72

Justice Gloria Smith, in agony, weighed in on the matter, nothing that there ought to be
legislation or rules in place, to mandate that the defense disclose to the prosecution, when
there is an intention to call expert witnesses. The defense, the judge must have felt, had
exposed, what may well have been a long standing practice of certain police officers; a
conviction at any cost, even perjury. Justice Smith was moved to lament: “This is a very
sad day in the history of justice.”73

Defense counsel wisely, recommended that every case that Detective Sirjue had a hand
in, should be re-examined. If he did it once, he may have done it before.

This attempt by the police to pervert justice, led to the case against Calvert and his co-
defendants to be thrown out by the presiding judge.

“The murder case against Eldon Calvert, the alleged leader of the Montego Bay based
Stone Crusher gang, and two other men was thrown out yesterday because a policeman
fabricated a witness statement.” Fabricated - Stone Crusher Gang Members Freed On
Fake Evidence, Jamaica Gleaner, Barbara Gayle, Gleaner, February 4, 2012.

“Justice has been served.”

Reportedly, Calvert’s brother, Gleason Calvert, remarked, after the court ruling that
“Justice has been served.”74

If any good came out of it, it was a pronouncement of “a new policy.” This new policy
held that in cases where a statement(s) of a witness who is either dead or cannot be found
is to be put into evidence, this category of statements would have to be first submitted for
examination by a handwriting expert.

Gleason was released immediately while Calvert and Heron were remanded as they were
facing other murder charges.

Two months after that aborted trial, on March 9th 2012, Calvert was released on three
million dollars bail, while Heron, was bailed in the sum of $1.5 million.75
Not welcome anymore

Reportedly, not everyone in Calvert’s Salt Spring community looked with favour upon his
impending release. Allegedly, some men in a section of the community were “not happy
with Calvert's impending return” and vowing not to let him come back and "run the
place." As such, following the aborted trial, and thinking that Calvert had been released
from custody; some factions began killing persons from Calvert’s section of the
community. Reportedly this resulted in the killing of a resident Rodell Hall in the wee
hours of Saturday morning.

Allegedly, the gunmen, believing Calvert was in the community, and was probably
celebrating his release, were reportedly on their way to "spoil the party" and to get rid of
anyone they saw. It was while on their murderous sojourn they encountered a taxi with
Hall heading to where the supposedly party was being held. They reportedly stopped the
vehicle and took everyone out. Hall, ran off, and was chased shot, stabbed, beaten and
killed by the gunmen. This gave the other persons who were in the cab, including at least
one child, time to flee and escape.

Reportedly, police who were in the community challenged the gunmen who fled during a
shoot-out.

A man like Calvert would no doubt not let such acts go unpunished.

Fearing a “bloody war,” as if a bloody war was not already the order of the day, “army
and police personnel flooded the area, while residents cowered in fear.”

***

All Alone: The killing of Calvert

With all his top lieutenants dead, mostly all killed by police, Calvert found him-self
alone.

On Tuesday September 9, 2014 Calvert, was shot and killed in Salt Spring. Several other
persons were reportedly shot during the incident. At 31 years old Eldon Calvert, crime
boss extraordinaire was dead.76

But who outside the police force would have heart enough to slay a man like Calvert?

Who killed Calvert?

The first person fingered in the killing of Calvert was one Domain Rohan Samuels,
otherwise called “Damage.

At 26-year-old Domain Rohan Samuels, aka Damage was, at the time he allegedly killed
Calvert, wanted by the St. James police. Seemingly he had fled to the Bahamas with
charges of robbery with aggravation, and shooting hanging over his head, not to mention
the killing of Calvert. He was promptly arrested following his deportation from the
Bahamas on March 9th 2015. Reportedly, he was charged “after being positively
identified in an ID parade.”77

On Tuesday March 24th 2015, it was reported that another individual, had been charged as
been involved in the killing of Calvert.78

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