JAMAICA: THE POLITICS OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE – THE KILLING OF

LAWENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (2007)

1. Constable Ralston Ebanks attached to the Clarendon Division, shot and killed along with
his sister, January 2nd 2007, as they sat in a motor car in Portmore, St Catherine; a 15
month old child, a niece of Ebanks was shot and injured in the incident.
2. Sergeant Huan Genus attached to the Clarks Town Police Station, shot and killed along
with his daughter a few meters from their Stewart Castle residence in Trelawny, January
2nd
3. Special Corporal Charles Gordon - of Harman Barracks, Shot on January 5 th at the
intersection of King and Barry Streets in downtown Kingston as he conducted a traffic
check, succumbed to his injuries January 16
4. Corporal Scarlett Biggs, forty-seven (47) years old, January 5 was, reportedly, standing at
his gate conversing with another man when three gunmen drove up, got out of the vehicle
and shot Biggs several times, following which they relieved him of his firearm. At the
time of his death, Biggs was stationed at the Kingston Central Division and had served the
constabulary for 26 years.
5. District Constable Luke Rhodes, 50 years old, attached to the Mount Salem Police Station
in St. James, January 23rd, shot and killed in the heart of downtown Montego Bay. Rhodes
had just gotten off duty and was reportedly walking towards a Union Street taxi stand
when two teenage boys ran up to him and pumped several bullets into his body before
relieving him of his weapon, watch and cellular phone.
6. Detective Corporal Dave Daley shot and killed in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, February 12 th
2007. Reportedly, Daley was shot upwards of 17 times. At the time of his death, Daley
had served the JCF for 19 years.
7. Constable Richard Alexander attached to the St. Andrew South Division; found dead in a
gully at Juno Crescent, Maypen, Clarendon with gunshot and stab wounds. March 27th
8. Constable Michael Haughton - killed during what was later confirmed as 'friendly fire'.
April 9th
9. Special Constable Joslyn Francis, 48 years old, shot dead by gunmen near his home,
Chapleton, Clarendon and his firearm stolen, May 26th
10. Sergeant Cleveland Wilson, 39, attached to the Waterford Police Station, shot and killed in
Bushy Park Clarendon, July 31st - as he sat in a barber's chair having his beard trimmed.
After shooting Wilson, the gunmen took Wilson's firearm and cellular phone.
11. Special Corporal Gareth Smith, attached to the Harman Barracks. Shot and killed as he
and a group of persons sat in a bar in Fraser’s Content, St. Catherine, August 29th –
12. Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown, shot and killed along Sundown Crescent, September
7th.
13. Constable Richard King - shot and killed - in the line of duty - after he and colleagues
from the Kingston Central Police Station went to Orange Street, in Fletcher's Land, where
a street dance was in progress to enquire if the promoters had the required permits,
September 30th
14. Constable Fidel Beckford attached to the Hunts Bay Police Station - shot and killed in the
community of Toll Gate, Clarendon, by a group of gunmen travelling in a motor car. At
the time of his death, Beckford was unarmed, this following seizure of his firearm by the
 police authorities who were investigating him for 'irregularities' - October 28th
15. Constable Cornel Lewis was shot and killed in a community called Mango Walk in
Montego Bay. November 11th 2007. At the time of his death, Lewis was attached to the St.
James Police Tactical Response Unit.
16. Constable Richard Harrison, 24 years old, shot once in the head and killed on Bay Farm
Road, Olympic Gardens, in the vicinity of Olympic Way - November 19th 2007.
Reportedly, Constable Harrison and another man were travelling in Harrison’s private
motor car along Bay Farm Road, when he came upon a roadblock. Reportedly, Harrison
attempted to reverse the vehicle and while doing so, gunmen who were waiting in ambush
opened fire; the other man was admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds.
17. Constable Valentine Chambers was shot and killed by gunmen on along Slipe Pen Road in
Kingston - November 29th 2007
18. Assistant Commissioner Gilbert Kameka shot and killed in Irish Town, St. Andrew and his
service pistol stolen - November 29th, 2007.
19. Sergeant Allan Lindsay, attached to the St. James Motorised Patrol Unit - gunned down in
Glendevon, St. James - December 1st 2007, Reportedly Sgt. Lindsay was driving in a
marked police vehicle when gunmen in ambush fired on him and after mortally wounding
him, they dragged him from the vehicle, relieved him of his service weapon and bullet
proof vest. Following which they threw his body in a ditch.
20. Sergeant Errol Brown, 52, attached to Area One Police Highway Patrol – shot and killed at
his home - Albion, in Montego Bay - December 12 th – discovered lying in his yard, his
body riddled with bullets.

Introduction

Since the start of 2016, 3 police officers have been shot and killed (and others have been shot and
wounded), except for one of the killings, it can be said that the other two officers died at the
hands of gunmen.

With the killing of law-enforcement officers, seemingly on the rise, such killing of law-
enforcement officers in Jamaica should be a cause for alarm, as is the killing of civilians by
police officers, speaking of the sheer numbers and disputed circumstances. In this instance we
will be exploring the former, the killing of Jamaican police officers.

Unlike our American neighbors with whom we most often-times like to compare troubling
issues, most Jamaican officers killed (over the years)with the exception of a few, have been
targeted, premeditated, ambush type killings. On the other hand in the US, a good 90+ percent
of the killings of law-enforcement officers, occurred by chance encounter, in the line-of-duty; or
if you will, on the job.

According to statistics culled from various sources, 19 Jamaican police officers were slain by
gunmen in 2007. This number, I am made to understand, was only one less than those killed in
1984; considered a record year

Parishes
The 19 killings took place in six parishes, St Catherine, Trelawny, Kingston, St Andrew,
Clarendon and St. James. To be expected, Kingston and St. Andrew combined were the deadliest,
with eight. However, St. James, with four such murders and Clarendon also with four, proved to
be the two deadliest rural parishes, St. Catherine had two, while Trelawny had one.

1. Portmore, St Catherine, January 2nd, Cons. Ralston Ebanks shot and killed along with his
sister as they sat in a motor car in; a 15 month old child, a niece of Ebanks was shot and injured
in the incident.
2. Stewart Castle, Trelawny, January 2nd, Sergeant Huan Genus, shot and killed along with
his daughter a few meters from their Stewart Castle residence.
3. Henderson Avenue, Kingston 11, January 5th, Corporal Scarlett Biggs, standing at his
gate conversing with another man when three gunmen drove up, got out of the vehicle and shot
Biggs several times, following which they relieved him of his firearm.
4. King and Barry Streets in downtown Kingston, January 5th, Special Corporal Charles
Gordon, mortally wounded, as he conducted a traffic check, languished in hospital before
succumbing to his injuries on January 16th,.
5. Union Street in the heart of downtown Montego Bay January 23rd, District Const. Luke
Rhodes, attached to the Mount Salem Police Station in St. James, just gotten off duty and was
walking towards a Union Street taxi stand when two teenage boys ran up to him and pumped
several bullets into his body.
6. Duhaney Park, St Andrew, February 12th, Detective Corporal Dave Daley shot and killed
in; reportedly, Daley was shot upwards of 17 times.
7. Juno Crescent, Maypen, Clarendon, March 27th, Constable Richard Alexander found
dead in a gully with gunshot and stab wounds.
8. Payne Avenue, Kingston 11, April 9th Constable Michael Haughton - killed during what
was later confirmed as “friendly fire.”
9. Chapleton, Clarendon, May 26th Special Constable Joslyn Francis, shot dead by gunmen
near his home, and his firearm stolen.
10. Bushy Park Clarendon, July 3st, Sergeant Cleveland Wilson, attached to the Waterford
Police Station, shot and killed as he sat in a barber's chair having his beard trimmed. After
shooting Wilson, the gunmen took his firearm and cellular phone.
11. Frasers Content, St. Catherine, August 29 th, Special Corporal Gareth Smith, attached to
the Harman Barracks. Shot and killed as he and a group of persons sat in a bar
12. Sundown Crescent, September 7th, Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown, shot and killed
13. Orange Street, Fletcher's Land, September 30th, Constable Richard King, shot and killed -
in the line of duty - after he and colleagues from the Kingston Central Police Station went to
where a street dance was in progress to enquire if the promoters had the required permits.
14. Toll Gate, Clarendon, October 28th Constable Fidel Beckford attached to the Hunts Bay
Police Station - shot and killed by a group of gunmen travelling in a motor car.
15. Mango Walk in Montego Bay, November 11th, Constable Cornel Lewis shot and killed.
16. Bay Farm Road, Olympic Gardens, November 19th, Constable Richard Harrison, shot
and killed. Reportedly, Constable Harrison and another man were travelling in Harrison’s
private motor car along Bay Farm Road, when on reaching a section of the roadway he came
upon a roadblock. Reportedly, Harrison attempted to reverse the vehicle and while doing so,
gunmen who were waiting in ambush opened fire. Shot once in the head, Harrison died on the
spot while the other man was later admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds.
17. Slipe Pen Road in Kingston, November 29th, Constable Valentine Chambers, shot and
killed by gunmen.
18. Irish Town, St. Andrew, November 29th, 2007, Assistant Commissioner Police Gilbert
Kameka, shot and killed and his service pistol stolen.
19. Glendevon, St. James December 1st, Sergeant Allan Lindsay, attached to the St. James
Motorised Patrol Unit. Reportedly Sgt. Lindsay was driving in a marked police vehicle when
gunmen in ambush fired on him and after mortally wounding him, they dragged him from the
vehicle, relieved him of his service weapon and bullet proof vest, and then threw his body in a
ditch.
20. Albion, in Montego Bay December 12th,Sergeant Errol Brown, attached to Area One
Police Highway Patrol – shot and killed at his home – discovered lying in his yard, his body
riddled with bullets.

Circumstances

Of the 19 officers criminally murdered, only two could be said to have been on duty at the time;
one while conducting traffic duties, the other while inquiring about entertainment permits. All the
others were off-duty, ambush killings.

Weapons

Firearms featured in all the killings, as was also in one killing, firearms as well as knives or other
sharp instruments.

Let us now look at some of the killing of police officers that took place in 2007.

The Killing of Constable Ralston 'Nooksi' Ebanks

On January 2nd 2007, bout 5:00 p.m., Constable Ralston Ebanks, 38 years old, attached to the
May Pen Police Station in Clarendon, along with his sister, 34 years old, Fernadissa Ebanks-
Clarke, a 15 month child, a niece of Ebanks, were returning home from Hellshire Beach (beach
trip), along the Braeton main road, Portmore, St. Catherine, driving his private motor vehicle,
when he stopped at a traffic light at West Port Henderson Boulevard. As he focused on the light
to change, another vehicle pulled up alongside him, and a gunman alighted and opened fire, at
point-blank range.

Apparently surprised by the attack, Ebanks swerved, hitting another vehicle, before his vehicle
overturned in an embankment.

When the shooting stopped, Ebanks was dead at the scene, his sister died sometime thereafter at
the Spanish Town Hospital, while the 15 month child was admitted to hospital.
Ebanks’ sister had, reportedly, arrived in Jamaica on Christmas Eve, to no doubt spend time with
her family. According to one police report, Ebanks killing was anything but random; he was
trailed to the location where he was shot.1

The Killing of Sergeant Huan Genus

At about 9:00 pm, still January 2nd, Sergeant Huan Genus, 52 years old, assigned to Clarks Town
Police Station in Trelawny, and his journalist daughter, Shari Genus, 26, a former TVJ reporter
and manager of JTS Shipping in Montego Bay, were gunned down in Stewart Castle, Trelawny,
while they were on their way home. Reportedly, Genus and his daughter, were travelling in their
private vehicle, when on reaching a few meters from their Stewart Castle home, they came upon
a roadblock. The elder Genus got out of the vehicle and as he attempted to clear the road,
gunmen who were lying in ambush “hiding in the foliage along the road,” shot him to death.
Thereafter, his daughter, sitting in the front passenger seat, no doubt in a daze, was executed.
Face down on the road, Genus licensed Taurus 9mm firearm was removed from his body. This
was but a mere four hours following the slaying of Constable Ebanks, in similar fashion.

At the time of his death, Sergeant Genus, described as “an icon in Trelawny, having served there
for all his 28 years in the Jamaica Constabulary Force” had given the Jamaica Constabulary
force, 34 years of service.

Almost a year prior to his death, reportedly, a man armed with two handguns had broken into the
Genuses home and “robbed them of jewellery, cash and other valuable items.”In that incident, no
one had been physical harmed.

Three days after Sergeant Genus killing, it was reported that police in Hanover were
“interrogating” a person, a suspect, in connection with Sergeant Genus and his daughter’s murder
and, in short order, turned this person over to Trelawny police.2

At a subsequent funeral, held at Crawle Methodist Church in Duncans, it was reported:

“Thousand came out … to pay their last respect to Sergeant Huan Genus and Shari Genus….
“Parked vehicles stretched from near the Duncans roundabout to the Spicy Hill junction, and all
the off roads, occupying every conceivable parking space, with residents having to throw their
gates open to assist.”3 Weekly Gleaner, February 1, 2007, Thousands pay respects to Sgt Genus,
daughter, Richard Morais.
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The Killing of Special Corporal Charles Gordon

On January 5th 2007, 10:30 in the morning or thereabout, Special Corporal Charles Gordon,
stationed at Harman Barracks, was at the intersection of King and Barry Streets in downtown
Kingston conducting his police assigned duties. It is not clear whether he was, at the moment he
was gunned down, “conduct[ing] a traffic check,” or “issuing a traffic ticket to a motorist….”
What we do know is that at that busy intersection, Barry Street and King Street, right outside that
landmark Khemlani Mart store, he was ambushed. Shot in the neck and the head area, Gordon
willed himself to survive; making it alive to the venerable gunshot wounds experience, Kingston
Public Hospital.4Jamaica Observer, Assault on cops, Vaughn Davis, Saturday, January 06, 2007;

For eleven days or thereabout, he fought on. With such serious, mortal wounds, and the way he
had bled on that pavement (“A lengthy blood trail was … visible below the Khemlani Mart logo
to the left of the store's entrance”) on January 16th, timed approximately 11:20 am, Gordon
succumbed to his injuries.5 Cop dies from gunshot wounds, Observer, Wednesday, January 17,
2007

A known gunman was later identified as a suspect in Special Corporal Charles Gordon’s killing.

Christopher Williams, known on the streets as Cheese Trix, had reportedly earned gunman
rankings in among other places, Tel Aviv, Matthews Lane, Hannah Town, Rema, Federal
Gardens and Torrington Park in Kingston and in some badland rural areas, places like Sandy Bay
and Clarendon’s capital, May Pen.

Following the killing of Gordon, Cheese Trix, it seems, drunk on the blood of Special Corporal
Gordon, went berserk. Reportedly on March 28 th, barely 2 months after he was the possible
killer of Gordon, he along with some other men, “sprayed” a carload of victims', firing in the
process, of killing all three occupants, “over 40 bullets.” Ironically, but so it was, and as one
journalist described the vehicle that the hapless victims were travelling in, “the death car”
killings took place, one could say, at the gates of the venerable May Pen Cemetery. 6 Paul Henry,
Jamaica Observer, Thursday, April 12, 2007, 'Cheese Trix' involved in triple killing near May
Pen Cemetery.

But Cheese Trix’s reign of death was far from over. Un-satiable, even after such a “Rocky
Horror” picture show, one day later, he was involved in an early morning slaying. This time he
upped the ante by one. In two separate but related incidents, he was said to be among a group of
men who gun-butchered, four persons. First a 57 year old man and his daughter shot and killed
in the sanctity of their “home.” Notwithstanding that the place they had to call home, was lowly
Arnett Gardens. Within moments after that “blood-letting,” “in making their escape,” they
literally spray-shot a man and his female companion from their moving motorcycle, tumbling
them from bike they were riding; the couple was seemingly just trying to leave the area after all
the shots that Cheese Trix and his cronies must have fired in the killing of the father and
daughter. The biking couple died, mostly likely before they had hit the ground.

Seemingly it was only after slaying Cheese Trix, that police "positive[ly]" identified him with the
multiple murderous incidents.7

How so? when following the killing of Gordon, the police high command had posted a reward of
one million dollars “for information leading to Williams’ arrest and conviction.” 8 Jamaica
Observer, Wednesday, January 31, 2007, $1-million for 'Cheese Trix'
While police “intelligence” went the usual route, seeking him high and low, Cheese Trix, as we
have witnessed, continued his reign of terror, killing and maiming at will.

On a Sunday morning, April 1st 2007, at about 4:30 am, brand Jamaica policing at work, a police
team comprising officers from the Flying Squad, Organised Crime and Area Four divisions, no
doubt, fighting fire with fire, either laid in wait, and or were “on an operation,” on Spanish Town
Road, in the vicinity of Weymouth Drive. Into the trap drove Cheese Trix, reportedly
accompanied by two cronies, riding merry along, death awaiting, party-out no doubt, in a Toyota
Corolla motor car.

The police team, a sight it would have been to behold, signaled the murderous Cheese Trix and
his band of likewise killers, to stop. As to be expected, they ignored the order and the police
gave chase.

There was not going to be any getaway dance this time. The police “intercepted the vehicle,”
along the Mandela Highway, reportedly “not far from the toll road.’ The police had covered all
the lairs.

Reportedly all three men alighted from the vehicle and opened fire. The fire was returned in
equal measure.

Where would Cheese Trix be looking to run, into any bushes on either side of the road, one
would think. With bullets all marked death whistling by, Cheese Trix, “marked for death” as he
was, when the smoke cleared, he was the only mortally wounded; tiring to hear, no doubt, his
two cronies escaped. Whatever time later, Williams was declared dead at the Kingston Public
Hospital. Taken from his grasp, or recovered related to the shootings, a .50 Desert Eagle, a very
powerful semi-automatic pistols. This weapon of destruction seemed his choice that fateful
morning.9

At the time of his killing “Cheese Trix” Williams was a serial killer times over. What, it took the
brutal killing of Corporal Gordon for this to be realized?

So revered was Cheese Trix in the criminal under-world, that post-script two significant
occurrences followed.
In the first, a mere two hours after the police would have rejoiced with ending such a murderous
reign, in what was ruled revenge for Cheese Trix death, gunmen compatriots opened fire on the
Denham Town Police Station. A serious barrage it was, one gunman was killed and a police
constable injured, non-life threatening but still outrageous.

In the second, undone in reverence of their brother gangster, about one month and approximately
one week following the killing of Williams, and the same-day revenge shooting up of Denham
Town Police Station, police had reason to “storm” a premises in a section of Arnett Gardens
known as and therefore no need to parenthesis, Top Jungle.

It was the “wake” the final send off before, usually the next day, burial. The police had
reportedly “receiv[ed] information” that several heavily-armed men were in attendance.
Sherlock would have said, elementary. Arriving on the scene, the police were reportedly fired on
by gunmen. In the aftermath, a known gangster, what’s in name? Little Wicked, was shot and
killed. Heavily armed indeed they were two AK47 assault rifles and whatever rounds of
ammunition were found, following the shooting. Cheese Trix's funeral, which was scheduled for
the next day, Sunday, had to be or was postponed, “because of the fatal shooting at the wake.” 10

The Killing of Corporal Scarlett Biggs

Ten hours later after the brutal shooting of Special Corporal Charles Gordon, January 5 th, still
with us, at about 8.25 pm, Corporal Scarlett Biggs, forty-seven (47) years old was shot and killed
by gunmen. Reportedly, Biggs was standing at his gate at 12 Henderson Avenue, Kingston 11,
conversing with another man when three gunmen drove up, got out of the vehicle and shot Biggs
several times, following which they relieved him of his firearm. Reportedly, the man Biggs was
conversing with had to jump over the gate to escape being shot. Biggs was rushed to hospital
where he succumbed to his injuries the following day. Biggs left a wife and two children, ages 11
and 15. At the time of his death, Biggs was stationed at the Kingston Central Division and had
served the constabulary for 26 years.11

The Killing of District Constable Luke Rhodes

With all the blood and gore that surrounded the killing of police officers in 2007, Sergeant Daley
shot upwards of 18 times, mostly while incapacitated on the ground; Sergeant Brown decapitated
by gunshots, the killing of the lowly ranked District Constable Luke, ranks among the most
premeditated and up close and in person killing of a police officer that year.

Early evening, January 23rd, Union Street in Montego Bay. As the name implies, Union Street
Montego Bay was a “main street.”

As D.C. Luke completed his shift at the Mount Salem Police Station in St. James, and began his
journey of miles home, first a trek to Union Street taxi. Two allegedly teenagers are shadowing
and marking him for the kill, no doubt on orders of others older than the them. Armed with
powerful handguns, firing furiously at D.C. Luke, wildly even, shooting in the process, a female
by-stander, the young killers gunned down D.C. Luke in a fusillade of shots. Taking what they
were probably after, his weapon, from his lifeless body.12

At 50 years old, in the heart of downtown Montego Bay, District Constable Luke Rhodes lay
dead.

D.C. Luke had been marked for killing – he lived in a murder town, Salt Spring, and he had
been receiving death threats; the robbery of his cell-phone and watch, maybe an after-thought.
The killers knew he was a police officer, they knew he would be alone, after all he had walked to
that taxi-stand many a times and was no doubt known to many. Never mind, a head in the sand
response, “…Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Area One Clifford Blake could not
confirm this claim;” that Rhodes had been marked for death.13

On February 2nd 2007, a mere 10 days after the killing of D.C. Luke, in another equally death
town, Norwood, around 11:00 pm, reportedly, police were on foot patrol in the area, when four
men, were spotted. Reportedly, either all four, or one among the four opened fire on the police
who returned the fire, at the end of which, a man was found clutching a pistol. Pronounced dead
on arrival at hospital; the other men escaped, the dead man was identified as one Michael
Williams 19 years old. He was identified as a suspect in the killing of district Constable Luke
and even more revealing, he was said to be a member of the fearsome Stone Crusher Gang.14

The Killing of Detective Corporal Dave Daley

17 shots

The most vicious in terms of the sheer number of bullets fired into the body of a police officer in
2007, but also maybe the most un-premeditated, the killing of Detective Corporal Dave Daley.
Detective Daley’s killing as gruesome as will be outlined, seems a crime of opportunity, mischief
at hand, based on the power of the gun, a main feature.

Sometime during early evening of Monday February 12 th, 2007, 8:00 pm, or thereabout,
Detective Corporal Dave Daley a single parent and father of two, assigned to the Centre for the
Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, found himself in Brook Valley
Duhaney Park.

Reports vary as to his reason for Daley’s presence in Brook Valley that Monday evening.
Allegedly, but one that makes perfect sense is that he had gone into the area to collect money
from the operator of a mini-bus that he owned. It was anything but uncommon for police
officers to be owners but not the operators of mini-buses.15

Whatever Daley’s true purpose, he alighted from his car on Brook Avenue in Duhaney Park, after
someone threw a stone that hit his car. When the stone hit his car, Detective Daley seemingly
knowing the area and the type of men, holding fort there, pulled his weapon as he pursued the
stone thrower into the maze of buildings. Cornering and or having a clear shot at the stone
thrower, Daley reportedly shot the man, later identified as one Joel, who though not initially
mortally wounded, subsequently died from his injuries. Seemingly not alone, the evidence
suggests, when he flung the stone and hit Daley’s car, others who were present, were primed for
mischief, even deadly so, and at least one was armed at the time.

Seeing the officer chase and maybe even seen him pull his weapon, at least one man, in that first
instance, pulled his gun and went after Daley. As Daley intent upon pursuing the perceived stone
thrower, fired and hit the man, an assailant reportedly shot Daley from behind. Taking unawares,
the gunshots, from evidence later adduced, incapacitated Detective Daley.

Shot at intervals by at least three men, include the first shooter, over a prolonged period of time,
Daley died of his wounds, said to be upwards of 17 bullets.

The Investigation and naming of suspects

The group of young men implicated in the killing of Detective Daley, seems to have had a long
fascination with guns. Duhaney Park by the hills was a perfect place for a group of young men
with access to guns to overcome any timidity to fire guns indiscriminately. The group seemed to
have worked themselves to become known as the lords of that little realm. They were known by
the residents, and surely the police, in and around the area. With guns at their beck they had only
to call and a posse would literally come running.

With the blessing of the then Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas, (... We have information
who these guys are and we are going to find them wherever they are,") it fell to the St Andrew
South Homicide Team, operating out of Hunts Bay Police station, led by then Senior
Superintendent of the Hunts Bay Police Station Newton Amos, to investigate Daley’s killing.
Within hours it seems, they had identified a number of persons:

Christopher Thomas, aka Chris, of Brook Valley, Ian Mundell, street name Jubba, and Lincoln
Powell, street name 'Harry Dog.

The very next day, (Tuesday?) shortly before the sun peeped out, officers from the St Andrew
South Division, who were on the trail of Daley's killers, cornered, shot, and killed Jubba.

Reportedly, the police had “received information” that a group of gunmen were gathered at a
Waltham Park Road address. Arriving, primed, ready to do battle, mentally and physically no
doubt, the police were reportedly fired on, in the ensuing gun-battle, Jubba (Mundell) was shot
and killed at the intersection of Waltham and Harvey roads, and a firearm - a 9mm pistol, which
contained two live rounds, taken from his grasp.

No doubt having heard of the killing of Jubba, at around 5:30 pm, (Tuesday 13 th or Wednesday
14th), Thomas turned himself in to the police at the Commissioner's Office; he was accompanied
by a man of the cloth; a pastor.

Weighing in after the killing of Mundell, then Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)
spokesman on National Security Derrick Smith, noted, "We do hope that they (the remaining
suspects) are tracked, charged, tried promptly, found guilty of capital murder and suffer the
consequence of the verdict of capital murder. That is, taken to the gallows as quickly as
possible." At the end of the day, no one would be hanged for Daley’s murder.

Suspected in the killing of a police officer, Lincoln Powell, Harry Dog, had long earned the
distinction of making Jamaica’s most wanted list. On Sunday November 9 th 2008, approximately
one year and nine months after the killing of Detective Daley, the elusive Lincoln Harry Dog
Powell, was killed, in a shoot out with the police miles away from Duhaney Park, Brook Valley,
the scene of the killing of Detective Daley. Reportedly, at about 3 o' clock, police from Area Two
went to a house in Orange Bay Portland, “in search of wanted men and illegal guns.” As so often
repeated, when the presence of the police became known, gun-fire greeted them from three
armed men, followed by like fire in return. Thereafter, Harry Dog was found mortally wounded;
taken to hospital, he succumbed to his injuries. Reportedly, the other two men escaped; upon
searching the house, a gun was found.
The trial of Christopher Thomas, aka Chris, the only one to be really brought to justice?

It came out at trial (a prosecution witness) that after Daley alighted from his car, he approached a
building complex entering a passage between buildings, where he surmised Joel had run. Daley
reportedly drew his weapon and fired, hitting Joel. According to this witness, thereafter, a man
who the witness identified as Thomas, arrived on the scene and began firing shots at Daley from
behind. Hit, Daley reportedly fell to the ground, and while lying on the ground, writhing in pain
no doubt, Thomas stood over him and fired several more shots into his body.

A second prosecution witness gave corroborating testimony. According to this second witness,
he witnessed Joel in haste heading towards one of the high rise buildings. Thereafter he saw
Daley alight from his car and proceeded towards the high rise buildings. Following which
several explosions were heard. Having heard the explosions, this witness curiosity got the better
of him, and as he “went to investigate,” he saw Thomas shooting Daley.

Far from finished, the witness testified that as Daley lay on the ground, Thomas went to check on
Joel, no doubt a crony of his, who was then also lying on the ground. Another man, identified as
Harry Dog, no doubt another crony, appeared, took a look at Joel, and then went towards Daley
and shot him, following which harry Dog went towards the rear of the building. Thomas who had
run in the direction of the hills behind the community, returned with still another man, Jubba,
who took one look at Joel, still lying on the ground, then went over to Daley and fired a number
of bullets into his body.

Testifying for the defense, Defense Witness (DW) testified that about 8:30 pm on the day of the
incident she was seated on her daughter’s car in the car park of the building. She saw Joel throw
a stone on the back of a car, after which Daley alighted from his vehicle and walked towards Joel
who was at the corner of the building. Joel ran around a corner and Daley began shooting at
him; Joel fell. Thereafter, Harry Dog arrived and told her not to make any “funny move.” Harry
Dog then went behind Daley and shot him, at which time Daley fell. Harry Dog went over to
Joel, attempted to move him, at which point Joel spoke to him and he left. She said that she then
heard Daley “calling out for help”; she turned back and saw Jubba, coming from the car park. He
went over the writhing Daley and shot him. According to DW, she did not see Thomas on the
scene that night.

At its core, this is the evidence that was presented at trial.

At a first trial, Thomas’ jury, could not unanimously agree, and so the first trial ended with a
hung jury.

In May of 2010, Thomas again faced a jury. This time around he was convicted of murdering
Daley, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after he had served 30 years.
One year later, in July of 2011, Jamaica’s bastion of law, The Jamaican Court of Appeals
overturned Thomas’ conviction and ruled that he should receive a new trial.

According to the Court, Thomas was deprived of a fair trial by “improper conduct” of the
Prosecution in putting to the DW, without any corroboration, that she had been paid to give
favourable evidence for Thomas. The Court ruled that this amounted to a ‘miscarriage of
justice.”16

In 2013, the prosecution took another shot at convicting Thomas. After deliberating for more
than four hours, on Thursday July 11 th, a 12 member jury, comprised of men and women, found
Thomas guilty for a second time. Two months later he was sentenced to 40 years with the
possibility of parole after he had served 20 years. Post-script, Thomas, filed an appeal.17

At the time of his death, Daley was recorded as “the sixth police officer to be killed by criminals
since the beginning of this year.”

The Killing of Constable Richard Alexander

At about 9:30 p.m. on the evening of March 27 th, Constable Alexander had cause to visit a place
called Juno Crescent, May Pen, Clarendon.

Although stationed at the time at St. Andrew South Division, specifically Hunts Bay Police
Station in St Andrew, Constable Alexander was on familiar ground in Clarendon’s capital city,
May Pen, and its outlaying areas; he had roots in the area. Seemingly, this time around, he was
on a few days, or even a few hours, well earned respite, no doubt, from the hustle and bustle that
is always Hunts Bay Police Station.

Constable Alexander, country-boy he might have grown, but stationed in Kingston, at Hunts Bay,
he would have been an alert police man. Would such an alert police officer be riding a bicycle
when he met his death? Constable Alexander had reportedly completed his mission and was on
his way back home, riding along Juno Crescent, alert no doubt, when he was surprised by what
seemed a large group of persons, armed for a mob killing.

Disturbing news broke on the morning of March 28 th, the body of a police officer had been found
in a gully at Juno Crescent. His killing spoke of savagery, he had been stabbed and shot
repeatedly.18
Juno Crescent - The Juno Crescent gang.

At the time of Constable Alexander’s killing, Maypen was awash with gangs, and Constable
Alexander would have known this. However, as noted, Maypen and its environs was familiar
territory to Constable Alexander.

The suspects – the Juno Crescent Gang

Ricardo Ford, lionized Ricky Trooper, was reputedly at the top of the tier of a gang know as the
Juno Crescent or as sometimes labeled, Junior Crescent gang, while his younger brother, O'Neil
Donaldson, known on the streets as Neil Diamond, was a chip, maybe, behind Trooper on the
gang ladder. Younger Neil Diamond was, in age, but seemingly he was a more fearsome
character than his older brother.19

This is the Juno Crescent that Constable Alexander was that evening riding his bicycle along.
Alexander had reportedly gone there to “settle a dispute,” “quell a dispute” between family
members of his and reportedly, “influential” “man” (persons) in the Juno Crescent community.

Alexander, it seems had accomplished his mission, “warn[ed] the man to leave his cousins alone”
and was on his way back home, when he was “attacked” by what seems a lynching party,
comprising several persons, maybe a few area woman among the men. It is not clear if he was
first shot or stabbed, either way he was incapacitated and thrown, a piece of dead or dying meat
into a gully, right there in the neighborhood, where his body was not “discovered” until shortly
after 7:00 am, the next morning; reportedly by “residents.”
The May Pen police

The May Pen police began a relentless, fervent even, investigations into identifying persons
behind the killing of Constable Alexander. The very same day they latched onto, gang bosses
Ricky Trooper and his brother Neil Diamond, as the ring-leaders of the lynching party.
Detaining several persons, numbering about six, the brothers included.

After much trial and tribulation, 16 days after the killing of Alexander, all the detainees were
released, except for the two brothers who were officially arrested and legally charged with the
murder of Constable Alexander.20

Bail? “no problem man”; they were out eventually, and while the elder brother may have tried to
lay low, knowing he was a target, the younger 'Neil Diamond' featured in many run-ins with the
police in Clarendon.

In November of 2007, a mere seven months after Alexander was killed, Neil Diamond featured
in a shoot out with the police, during which he was shot and wounded and a crony, an alleged
Juno Crescent gang member was killed. Somehow, Neil Diamond made it out on bail again.
The dead man, only 19-years old, a Calvin aka “Colour” Powell was said to have been also
involved in the killing of Constable Alexander.

From police accounts, they had gotten a tip of crime afoot in Juno Crescent. Arriving, they
spotted both Powell and the watched Neil Diamond. The men reportedly opened fire and the
police returned it in like measure, Powell was found with fatal wounds, while Donaldson, was
only slightly wounded. A handgun was reportedly discovered.21

In July of 2008, fifteen months after his arrest for the murder of Constable Alexander, at about
five in the evening, Ford was shot and killed by gunmen along the Paisley main road in
Clarendon. At the time of his death, notwithstanding that both he and his brother were out on
bail for the murder of Constable Richard Alexander, he had just weeks earlier, reportedly,
returned to Jamaica from the United States. According to police reports, on July 27 th, Ricky
Trooper was sitting in his vehicle at around 4.30 p.m. in the afternoon, when a motorcar with a
group of men stopped alongside his vehicle. The occupants of that second vehicle shot him
several times before driving away.22

As late as 2010, Neil Diamond was out on bail and for all intent and purpose, hell-bent on a life
of crime and violence.23

Constable Alexander was the seventh cop to die at the hands of gunmen.

The Killing of Special Constable Joslyn Francis

On May 26th, Saturday night at about 9:00 pm, Special Constable Joslyn Francis, 48 years old, of
Chapleton, Clarendon set out on a trek that would see him home. However, this was not to be as
he was attacked and shot dead by gunmen near his home. After shooting him, his killers robbed
him of his firearm, a Smith and Wesson service revolver. His body was discovered some minutes
later in a pool of blood.

Described by colleagues as "jovial and funny" "loved to make jokes" “quiet and easy going,” and
noting that the killing of such a police officer “… must have been a reprisal,” Constable Francis’
killing came as a shock to his colleagues, who in protest, though denied by those in the realm of
bosses ("There is no truth to it. They were at work… They went for counselling and came to
work at 8:00 this morning. I sent them home at four. That is eight hours work”) staged various
forms of “work stoppage.” 24
Motive

As noted, some colleagues’ speculated and theorized, with good reasons no doubt, that the killing
of Constable Francis was reprisal for a police killing of “gunman in the area” about two weeks
earlier.

Post-script, it is not known if anyone was identified, charged, arrested or terminated for the
killing of Killing of Special Constable Joslyn Francis.

The Killing of Sergeant Cleveland Wilson

July 31st 2007, Sergeant Cleveland Wilson, attached to the Waterford Police Station, Bushy Park
Clarendon, is sitting in a barber-chair, “having his beard trimmed,” or his “hair cut,” when more
than one gunman walked into the barbershop, and shoot Sergeant Wilson multiple times. The
sergeant’s killers removing his firearm and cellular phone.

On March 2nd, a Sunday evening, or rather night as it was close to eleven pm, the eight month of
the execution of Cleveland Wilson, arriving in 21 days, a lone gunman shot dead a brother of a
man who was “believed” to have witnessed the sergeant’s killing.

At approximately 10:50 pm, only 24 years old, the victim, was executed.

Hopeton Benjamin could have been the brother of any person who had witnessed a murder, not
to mention that of a police officer. The evidence pointed that this was anything but a random
execution, as that is what it was an ‘‘execution.”
The Evidence

The victim was not alone; he was sitting around a table with a group of men playing a game of
dominoes; a major, if not the major Jamaica pastime.

He was the only one targeted, as no one else was even but injured, in a fusillade of gunshots that
could no less have been graphical described by a perceptive journalist:
“pumped full of bullets.”25
Was this not to ensure that those who needed to get the message to see and blind, hear and deaf
would do so?

With all those clues, Clarendon Police, at the time, reportedly told the media: 26

"At present we have no evidence to suggest that that is so. We are not dismissing it, but ….

“But investigations are still early.

… but when we asked the family members they did not answer in a manner that was decisive
enough for us.

"Right now, we are more concerned with finding the man who did the shooting.”
Look at all the buts, but, but

But Roll back the hands of time to approximately eight months earlier, to July 31 st 2007, when
Sergeant Cleveland Wilson, (39?46?), attached to the Waterford Police Station, found himself in
Bushy Park Clarendon, in a housing scheme, called, “Bushy Park Housing Scheme,” sitting in a
barber-chair, and or either, “having his beard trimmed,” or his “hair cut.”

From some accounts three men, some two, walked into the barbershop, reportedly, some reports,
spoke to the/a barber, an inquiry as to the price of a haircut, other reports, spoke to Sergeant
Wilson. Whichever distraction, it was a ruse designed for Sergeant Wilson. The men then pulled
guns and shot Sergeant Wilson multiple times.

Dead or close to dying, one can here presume, the sergeant’s killers took his firearm and cellular
phone or maybe they had taken them before shooting him. The killers then unhurriedly left the
scene. On foot, some reports.

It should have been readily recalled that the killers of Sergeant Wilson were ruthless. It would
have taken more than the run of the mill killers to have targeted a police Sergeant. Evidently
these were men who would take on the police in any given circumstances and on any given day,
day or night, it did not matter.

They had killed him in front of at least one witness, who would have at least whispered it to a
brother of his. They seem to have been well organized, allegedly at the killing of Sergeant
Wilson, quite a number of killers were at the scene. It would be evident that such a prized
execution could not be afforded to be botched. Therefore at least two, for surety, three persons
would execute such a job.

Not to mention, after killing Sergeant Wilson, the killers had not just up and ran. No, they had
spent time removing, from his dead body, more like it, his firearm and cellular phone, than the
chance close encounter of removing his firearm first. Lying on the ground, a bullet to the brain
for insurance would have been the most sure-fire method.

One can readily understand taking his firearm, why the Sergeant’s cellular phone? Maybe they
were in search of informers?

If more was needed, the witness’s brother was from the same Bushy Park community, and other
family members “other relatives … have been threatened.”27

Was this not messaging enough, not clues enough, not evidence? “Mr. Witness to Sergeant
Wilson’s killing, today it was your brother, tomorrow it may be your mother on any given day, it
could be you?”

Nine months after the killing of Sergeant Wilson, and one month and eight days after the killing
of the witnesses’ brother, without even an arrest in either of the two sure-fire related killings, it
was left to other killers to execute justice on one of the reputed killers of Sergeant Wilson, maybe
even the killer of the civilian:28

“The Clarendon police are reporting that a man who was killed on Wednesday is the prime
suspect in last year's murder of Sergeant Cleveland Wilson.

“The suspect is Anthony Anderson, 22, of Bucks Common in the parish.

“Residents found Mr. Anderson's bullet riddled body with the throat slashed on Wednesday
morning. “

The Killing of Special Corporal Gareth Smith

At approximately 10:00 pm August 29th, Special Corporal Gareth Smith, 48, of Royal Place,
attached to the Harman Barracks, was among a group of persons at a bar in Frazer's Content,
West Central St Catherine, when gunmen approached, reportedly identified Corporal Smith,
opened fire killing him and another man, a Gladstone Findlay.

Anything but random it seems, 2007 was also an election year with multiple killings laid at its
feet. The scene of the killing was a bar was owned by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for
Beleview, Alvin Beckford.

Smith it was reported was shot upwards of 26 times; there was “gunshots all over his body -15 to
his lower body and 11 to his upper body….” Unpardonable, Smith’s “face was almost
unrecognisable.”

Another man and a woman from the area were also shot and injured. In the aftermath of, but still
for all, with so many deaths taking place, placed at the door of political violence, the “Election
Centre” post-haste, “recommended” that the police ban all public political activities in the
Corporate Area and St Catherine.29

A dead police officer, gunned down by killers, and all could be said “LET US BAN ALL
POLITICAL MEETING.”
 The Killing of Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown.

Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown was shot and killed along Sundown Crescent, on September
7th, when several men walked up, and opened fire executing him. He was pronounced dead at
hospital. His killers took his firearm and motorcar.

It is September 7th, a Thursday night, 9 o'clock or thereabout, Sundown Crescent off Molynes
Road in St. Andrew, a pretty decent neighbourhood.

Up drives Sergeant Brown, 30 years old, an officer of great distinction, having served as a
bodyguard to former prime minister, P.J. Patterson, and presently serving as part of a security
detail to present Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. He was for all intent and purpose,
security oriented.

Sergeant Brown, a man in his prime, was ferrying a female companion home. Seemingly clued in
to the Sergeant Brown’s comings-and-goings, several men walked up, and opened fire executing
Sergeant Brown. He was pronounced dead at hospital. His killers took his firearm and motorcar.
Within minutes a squadron of police is out in full force searching for his vehicle, a first step.
Sergeant Brown’s car is recovered within minutes, a hop and a skip, somewhere along Bay Farm
Road.

A Carey Rose, otherwise known as Tyson, 19 years old at the time, Kingston 11 bred, is named
as a prime suspect in the killing of Brown, as also another unnamed suspect. Rose’s lair is
identified as within the environs of the killing, Australia Road, Yancey Place, Balcombe Drive,
Olympic Way.

On Wednesday October 3rd 2007, a man said to be the possible unidentified suspect is held in the
rural parish of Enfield, St. Mary. He had run but the long arm of the law found him. Allegations
are that after the gun slaying of Sergeant Brown on September 6th, the suspect, 22-years old, had
ran away from his home in an housing settlement that was within stone throw to where
Sergeant’s Brown motor car was found abandoned.

It had taken twenty-seven days after the crime to catch him. His capture was trumpeted: "He will
be facing an identification parade …." 30

Still, teenaged cop killer Rose remained on the lam. How could a teenager, wanted for murder of
a police officer remain on the lam for so long?

Post-script?

In 2008, ten months after the killing of Sergeant Brown a wanted circular of sorts noted:

“Also on the most wanted list is accused teenaged cop killer Carey Rose, alias 'Tyson' of 13
Yancey Place in Olympic Gardens. Rose is wanted for the murder of former bodyguard of
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller, Detective Sergeant Egerton Brown, who was killed -
and his firearm stolen - in September last year on Sundown Crescent in Kingston. Jamaica
“Rose is described by police as being about five feet 10 inches tall, of dark complexion, but with
bleached-out face, hands and neck. He sports a cornrow hairstyle and has a straight face, small
mouth with black lips and his left ear is pierced twice.31

And a whopping seventeen (17) long months later, the police were still searching for a teenaged
killer. This circular read:

“Completing the most wanted list …:

“Carey Rose, also called 'Tyson' of Yancey Place, St Andrew - wanted for the murder of
Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown at Sundown Crescent in St Andrew in September 2007 and
robbery of the cop's firearm. Rose is known to frequent Yancey Place, Australia Road, Balcombe
Drive, Olympic Way and Sundown Crescent in St Andrew….” 32 Karyl Walker, Jamaica
Observer, Wednesday, February 18, 2009, Stone Crusher gang leader heads country most wanted
list, Observer

How could a teen-ager, wanted for murder of a police officer remain on the lam for so long?

The Killing of Constable Richard King

On September 30th Constable Richard King was shot and killed after he and colleagues from the
Kingston Central Police Station went to Orange Street, in Fletcher's Land, where a street dance
was in progress.

King and his fellow officers, were simple seeking to enforce any possible violations of
entertainment and or noise abatement laws, rules and or regulations legislated by Jamaican law-
makers.

While making such inquires, three armed men reportedly opened fire at the police team. Hit in
the head, King fell to the ground. Reacting, King’s colleagues returned the gunfire but the three
gunmen escaped. Rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital, King was pronounced dead.

In the aftermath, it was reported that “residents” glowing noted that that the officers “were
courteous” as they went about making lawful inquires.

Two men were identified; a Troy Burke and an Everton Williams.

Not much further was gleaned beyond that, seemingly, somewhere along the line, and in time,
both were arrested and charged with the killing of King.

Latest developments, nine long years later, speaking of 2016, Burke was on bail, Williams was
making a bail application and the Office of The Director of Public Prosecutions, was seeing the
death penalty.33

The Killing of Constable Fidel Beckford

On October 28th, a Sunday afternoon, around 2:00 p.m., Constable Fidel Beckford who was
stationed at the Hunts Bay Police Station, in Kingston, was shot and killed in the community of
Toll Gate, Clarendon. At the time of his death, Beckford was unarmed, this following seizure of
his firearm by police authorities who were investigating him for reportedly 'irregularities'. Hunts
Bay command, where he was stationed, had “recently seized his service revolver and his
personal firearm license … suspended by the Clarendon police.”34
Maybe had he been armed he would have had a fighting chance, then again, it might not have
mattered, as many of the officers killed in 2007, were armed and had had their weapons stolen by
their killers.

Reportedly, as Beckford stood at a shop in the community, a motor car drove up, with seemingly
knowledge that Beckford would be unarmed, one gunman alighted from the vehicle and shot
Beckford upwards of eight times in the back. Seemingly Beckford must have turned to flee.35

Almost three weeks later, in November a Cecil Campbell also called also known as Ben, 23 years
old, of a May Pen address, is arrested in connection with the killing of Beckford; while the police
“pursu[ed] several leads.” 36

The Killing of Constable Cornel Lewis

November 11th 2007, the news comes that another police officer is dead. This time, the latest
victim is a Constable Cornel Lewis, attached to the St. James Police Tactical Response Unit. He
leaves behind two children, the youngest, two months shy of two years old.

Reports are that Constable Lewis was dropping off a female companion at an apartment complex
in a community called Mango Walk in Montego Bay, at about 3:50am, when he saw a man,
whose actions aroused his suspicion. Constable Lewis reportedly alighted from his vehicle and
went to investigate. He was pounced on by three men, who shot him several times. The men then
took his service pistol and his motor vehicle.

Shortly thereafter, Constable Lewis’ car was found “burnt-out shell, the term, in nearby Montego
Hills. Mango Walk where the killing took place was said to be an “upscale community.” At the
time of his death, Lewis had given the police force 11 years of service.

The police could only say that it was "… following some leads and ... questioning some
people ....” 37

Constable Cornel Lewis, at 34-years old, had become the 14th police statics for that year

The Killing of Constable Richard Harrison

Shortly after mid-night on November 19th 2007, going into Sunday morning, Constable Richard
Harrison, 24 years old, was shot and killed on Bay Farm Road, Olympic Gardens, in the vicinity
of Olympic Way.

Constable Harrison and another man were travelling in Harrison’s private motor car along Bay
Farm Road, when on reaching a section of the roadway he came upon a roadblock. Reportedly,
Harrison attempted to reverse the vehicle and while doing so, gunmen who were waiting in
ambush opened fire. Harrison, reportedly pulled his gun and opened fire, but received a gunshot
to the head. He died on the spot while the other man was later admitted to hospital with gunshot
wounds.38

The investigation

Shortly after Harrison’s killing, a 17 year old had turned up at the hospital with gunshot wounds.
Investigators quickly deduced that the teenager, later identified as Andre "Pops" Whilby, was one
of the gunmen who had opened fire on Harrison, and that Whilby had been shot in the exchange.
The investigation further revealed that robbery was the most likely motive as reportedly, the
police had received reports that the gunmen had earlier tried to rob a vehicle that was traveling
ahead of Harrison’s. Whilby was promptly arrested and charged with murder.39

At the time of his death, Harrison had served the JCF for four years, and his murder brought to
15 the number of police officers that had been killed up to that time of the year.

***

November 29th dawned. Two police officers would lose their lives in similar fashion; they
would be ambushed in seemingly premeditated manner.

The Killing of Constable Valentino Chambers

Constable Chambers, as he must have done many mornings, was driving along Brewery Road,
when on reaching Slipe Pen Road he was fired on by what seems a sizeable number of gunmen,
waiting in ambush. Reportedly, Chambers, though outgunned, managed to return the fire;
however, the fusillade from the gunmen proved overwhelming and Chambers, who received
gunshots wounds all over his body, lost control of the vehicle which ended up in a wall. The
gunmen, thereafter, relieved Chambers of his firearm; the date, Thursday November 29th.

The very next day, after the killing of constable Chambers, Friday November 30 th, a man
identified as a as a “principal suspect” in the murder of Constable Chambers, was himself shot
and killed by “unknown assailants” like gunmen, no doubt, on Luke Lane, in the heart downtown
Kingston. He was identified as Frederick Johnson, 19 years old, known on the streets as
Murphy. In the aftermath of the killing of Murphy, the police reported that three “other suspects”
were been “pursed.” Unbelievable, reportedly, Murphy had been “released” from police custody,
two days before the killing of Constable Chambers.40
 The Killing of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gilbert Kameka

Irish Town was considered “a quiet place.” The most famous murder, in its history, the August
16th 1999, still unsolved, murder of Madame Rose Leon. Madame Rose Leon, was indeed a
Madame: The first woman to chair a national political party, the Jamaica Labour Party; among
the first woman elected into Jamaica’s House of Representatives; among the first woman to be
appointed to head up a ministry, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, and many other first -
left the JLP and joined the People's National Party; local councilor; deputy mayor of Kingston;
and a second head of a ministry, Minister of Local Government in the PNP government.

On November 29th 2007, ACP Kameka, joined Madame Rose Leon as the two most famous
persons murdered in Irish Town, when was lured into its quiet hills and murdered, premeditation
beyond doubt.
The killing of ACP Kameka had taken place approximately 50 meters from the Irish Town Police
Station. At the time of his death, ACP Kameka was in charge of Area Four.

Police on the scene where Kameka was murdered

- Photo - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

Not but one month later, in pretty un-dramatic fashion, though pretty dramatic by Jamaican
standards, two young men, a Kemar aka “Bling” Dawkins, 18 years old, and a Massimassa
“Massi” Adams, 26-years old, are apprehended. Adams, hiding in the ceiling in one room,
Dawkins hiding under a bed in another room.41
 Massi-massa Adams

The two, Adams and Dawkins, joined by the hands of crime with a Rohan Townsend, 21 years
old, and a Tina Gaye McGowan, 18 years old, comprised the motley yet deadly crew that was
identified as having a hand in the killing of ACP Kameka.

Gay, a “demon woman” at heart, was first thought to be also a victim of the crime which killed
Kameka, however, subsequent investigation proved that she played a major role. Seemingly for
a short period, ACP Kameka was involved in a sort of intimate relationship with her. Without
her in the picture, she was part of the robbery plans, as that is what it was, ACP Kameka may
well be among the living today.

Agreeing to testify for the prosecution, the murder charge against her was withdrawn, and
substituted for a charge of conspiracy to rob, to which she pleaded guilty and was given a three-
year suspended sentence.42

Two years hence, after a likewise pretty un-dramatic trial, at which it came out that: The motive
for killing Kameka was to steal his weapon; that Kameka’s gun had been removed from his
persons either before or after he was killed “by one of two” gunshots fired by Adams, from a gun
that he had brought to the scene of the crime, the other three are convicted, and thereafter
sentenced as follows:

Adams death sentence, Dawkins, 30 years to life and Townsend, 20 years to life. Subsequently,
the Court of Appeals held that the sentence of Adams should be reversed and he should instead
be sentenced to 30 to life, that of Dawkins was upheld, while that of Townsend was set at 20
years without the burden of life.43

At the time of his death, Kameka stood as the “highest ranked officer to be murdered in the
Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) recent history ….” 44
Post-script

The weapon used to kill Kameka was never recovered by police. However, in February of 2013,
approximately five years and two months after the slaying of Assistant Commissioner Kameka,
retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Denzil Boyd, was shot and killed. Reportedly,
“ballistics tests” revealed that the same gun that was used in the killing of Kameka was also the
one used in the killing of Boyd. The police theorized that Adams, the killer of Kameka, had got
one over on the police, in not revealing where he had hid the murder weapon, whose location
should have been even more of immediate importance than securing convictions. He had hid the
weapon after killing Kameka and thereafter told colleagues of his, while in prison, where to
locate it. It seems that this gun was circulating as a murder weapon, as it was also identified as
the weapon that was used in another third killing.45

The circulating murder weapon

The circulating weapon murder theory had good roots, Adams at the time of Kameka’s killing
was said to have been either a full-fledgy member of a ghastly gang, that had been identified
with ghastly deeds, by the name of Gideon Warriors, or he was a fringe associate.

Massinissa Adams [was] a former member of the Giddeon Warriors gang …..46

The killing of Sergeant Lindsay Killing

Policemen at the murder scene of Sergeant Alan Lindsay, 47(photo Nagra Plunkett)

The Killing of Sergeant Allan Lindsay

On December 1st 2007, at about 4.15 pm, 53-year-old Sergeant Allan Lindsay, “a sub-officer,”
attached to the St. James Motorised Patrol Unit, was gunned down along a road, in Dallas,
Glendevon, St. James. Reportedly Sergeant Lindsay was driving in a marked police vehicle, in
uniform, when, from all accounts, a large group of gunmen in ambush opened fire on him. After
mortally wounding Sergeant Lindsay, the men dragged him from the vehicle (by his feet one can
surmise), and relieved him of his service weapon and bullet proof vest. Following this ghastly
deed, they threw his lifeless body in a ditch.

Rushed to Cornwall Regional Hospital, he was pronounced dead.48

Reportedly, Sergeant Lindsay was making plans to go into retirement.

A number of suspects were identified:

Damain Reid (aka “Que Que”)

Damion Vassel, and a

Jerome McLeod

These three were positively identified, however in infamy, accessory before or after the fact, they
would have been joined by:

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 32
civilians and four police officers were reportedly 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 remained “for several years”; October
of 2012, shot and killed by police in Glendeveon, a mere 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 21st, 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.

With many years of police experience behind him, up the time he was slain, Sergeant Lindsay’s
police experience would have taught him many things. Two things stands out.

1. Not to travel alone if he felt a threat existed that he would be attacked in a particular area.

2. If he had to travel alone, in and or through such an area, not to do so in a readily identified
“police” vehicle.

Those two cautions would have been in his mind if he felt that at any moment an attack was
imminent.

Notwithstanding his experience, up to the time he was killed, an extraordinary sum-total,

seventeen (17) police officers had been slain mostly in ambush premeditated fashion since the
beginning of the year. Sergeant Lindsay, among other cops, must have been thinking, the end of
the year is approaching, maybe no more officers will be gun-down for the year,, yet it was early
December nevertheless.

The Stone Crusher Gang

The Stone Crusher was running rampant in among other places their stomping ground,
Glendevon! Law enforcement, scholars, et al even beyond our shores, had identified the Stone
Crushers, as one of the most brutal gangs in terms of sheer driving fear into all and sundry, even
other gangs.49
At the time Sergeant Lindsay was murdered, the Stone Crusher were said to be responsible for
the majority of murders in St. James, that year, including that of two police officers.

A chronicle of their rampage would read as follows:

Lotto “Scam” Wars”

Corruption of (sections of) the St. James Police Force
Beheadings
The Blood Lane Killings
The Ironshore “main” Road murders
Fire as a Terror Tool
Informer fi dead
Slaying of “Eye” “Witnesses”
The Hit List

Lotto Scam Wars

The Stone Crusher, in part, funded their operation by having a heavy hand in the lotto scams.
This heavy hand included extortion (serving as body-guards) and gun-point robberies of
scammers, and also personal involvement in the scams.

These activities allowed the gang to build up a coffer of heavy weaponry, high caliber type hand-
guns, and very important, mobility; this would be manifested in the form of high end cars.

At one point in time it was estimated that Jamaican scammers were fleecing American citizens of
collectively US$300 million each year.50

Corruption of (sections of) the St. James Police Force

This vast sum to loot brought out wolves and wolves in sheep clothing; corrupt police officers
came out from behind their shield(s).

"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."51

What is done in the dark came to light when 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.52
Beheadings

In 2005 a man's head was found on a stool, surrounded by burning candles 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. One Jamaican
media used the word “gruesome.”53

The Blood Lane Killings

On February 8th 2006, at about 4:15 p.m, two brothers and one of the brother’s girl-friend, were
shot and killed at one of the brother’s home. 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. 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.”

Ten days later, Blood Lane was again a washed in blood, this time, a young man was brutally
slain.

The Ironshore “main” Road murders

On the night of March 18th 2006, a common-law couple was abducted from their home,
transported to bushes off a known main road, Ironshore main road, where they shot and their
bodies set ablaze in a car.

Fire as a Terror Tool

At about 11:45 p.m, on May 21 st 2006, a police party, in Glendevon, a Crusher enclave, was on
an operation when 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 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.

In addition to a rifle, and multiple rounds of ammunition found in the car, the inventory also
included two containers of gasoline, hacksaw blades, a jack hammer and machetes.

On July 3rd 2006, five persons were shot and killed in one continuous incident in Stone Crusher
Norwood enclave. Most disturbingly, during the rampage, the killers set to the torch, several
dwelling places.

Couple the torching of the bodies of the common-law couple, body parts surrounded with
burning candles, two containers of gasoline in an abandoned car, the setting of fire to dwellings,
and there was clue enough that fire may have been a Stone Crusher calling card.
Informer fi dead

On January 27th 2003, an eight month old child was shot and killed while the child’s parents were
shot and seriously wounded, by gunmen who had opened fire indiscriminately on the child’s
parents.

For the Stone Crusher, that was anything but rampage enough. The very next morning, after the
killing of the infant, a 32-year-old woman was shot and killed; allegedly, she had seemingly been
overheard condemning the killing of the infant.

Slaying of “Eye” “Witnesses”

In November of 2007, the police placed a reward of one million dollars bounty on the head of
reported Stone Crusher Leader, a man named Eldon Calvert. His wanted circular described him
as a man wanted “on several counts of murder and shootings….” Among the killings directly
attributed to him:

September 2006, 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.

October 2006, a triple killing in the same community.

November 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.

Calvert 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.

The Hit List

But with all the above mayhem attributed to the Stone Crusher, the allegations of a “hit list”
would have, no doubt, be the most worrying thing to Sergeant Lindsay.

Days after the killing of Sergeant Lindsay, a report issued that “Police in St James are on high
alert after receiving information that a notorious gang based in the parish have compiled a list of
cops who they have marked for death.” It is not known if Sergeant Lindsay’s name was on that
list, what is known is that the listed was in circulation prior to his murder, as earlier as November
from reported accounts.

“… Les Green, yesterday confirmed that the Stone Crusher Gang, which has been blamed for a
series of murders and other violent incidents in Montego Bay and its environs since last year, has
masterminded the hit list.

“Sources in the police force say the gang crafted the list just days after the police released the
photographs, identities and aliases of the island's 12 most wanted criminals late November. A $1-
million bounty has been placed on the head of each wanted man on the list.

“Three of the wanted men are from St James and police say they are linked to the Stone Crusher
Gang….

“Law enforcement officials describe the Stone Crusher Gang as a criminal organisation with
over100 members. It has bases in the Glendevon, Norwood, Salt Spring, Rose Heights, Green
Pond, Canterbury and Flankers areas.”54

This was the caldron that Sergeant Lindsay drove into that December morning.

The planning to kill Sergeant Lindsay must have gone something like:

Gang members Damion Vassell, Blacks Lawn and Calvert are sitting talking

Calvert: Our squaddie sey di bwoy a work today.

Damion: Good. So how wi ago do this?

Blacks Lawn: Just kill him.

Calvert: When im dey pon duty im neva less than drive thru ya. Im nu no sey a wi rule
Norwood. We not him.

Damion: A long time I wanan kill da bwoy dey.

Calvert: Gi somebody else a chance. Yu nu jus kill a police bwoy.

Damion: Im hav something fi do wid di killing of some of our pari.

Calvert: Alright. Hear how wi ago do this. Im haffi slow dung a di bad spot inna di road. Soon
as im slow dung, wi open fire pon im from both sides a di road.

Blacks: Wha happen if im a wear bullet-proof vest?

Damion: Di amount a gun shot ago lick im, im coulda a wear a million bullet-proof vest ---
Calvert: Here is the plan, Damion, yu and Que Que, and Jerome ago mash the work. Blacks,
mek di res a di man dem know wha a gwine. Tell dem fi dey pon point.

Seargeant Lindsay is seen driving down the street. His window (driver side) as well as the
passenger side is down. A host of men are seen waiting in ambush. As he slows down at the
potholes, the men unleash a barrage of gunshots.

Damion Vassel

Vassel was identified as the lead triggerman in the killing of Sergeant Lindsay. In addition,
Vassel was also fingered as having a hand in the November 11th 2007 killing of Constable Cornel
Lewis.

On December 13th 2007, twelve days after the killing of Lindsay, Vassell and two men were shot
and killed in a shoot out with the police. Reportedly, 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 recovered; among them the gun that was reportedly taken from the body of a
Sergeant Lindsey, as was Lindsey’s bullet-proof vest.55

Damian aka “Que Que” Reid

Reid was identified as having a direct hand in the killing of Lindsay. For two years and going on
five months, Reid escaped a judgment day, however on May 3 rd 2010, during what was described
as a shoot out with a joint police/military team, at a place called Sammy Bush, Norwood St.
James, Reid was shot and killed.56

Jerome McLeod

Mcleod, reportedly brother to main trigger-man, Vassell, was also implicated in the killing of
seargeat Lindsay. He could, if he choose, count himself, spared a police bullet; he was arrested
and charded with the killing of Lindsay. 57

"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.58

As Christmas of 2007 drew near, another police murder was in the cards

The Killing of Sergeant Errol Brown

On Wednesday December 5th, Sergeant Errol Brown, 52, attached to Area One Police Highway
Patrol was killed at his Second Street, Albion, Montego Bay, home, and his service weapon
stolen. Seemingly he had been killed around 9:00 pm, a day earlier, but his body was not
discovered until the next morning. Residents of the area had reported hearing gunshots around
the time he was killed; however, reportedly, police had followed up on the reports but had not
come across any crime scenes to substantiate the reports.

His killers had come well prepared, as reportedly several AK-47 rifle spent shells were found at
the scene. Furthermore, as graphically described by a colleague:

"The man head cap come off clean, clean. Him mash up bad,”59

Post-script

Not know if any suspects were identified, arrested, tried and or terminated otherwise.

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