Yearlong feud claims two more lives
Woman, 2-y-o left nursing gunshot wounds
Published:Thursday | July 14, 2022 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
July 24 will mark one year since the mystery disappearance of reputed Park Lane strongman Shadari ‘Kishi’ Bryan and ongoing bloodshed between factions, which investigators theorise was at the root of Wednesday’s double killing.
Dead are 63-year-old taxi driver Lloyd Clarke and his passenger Rohan Tulloch.
Two other passengers – a woman and a two-year-old child – were also shot in the early-morning attack, which played out on Hilary Avenue, off Red Hills Road in St Andrew.
The police believe that Tulloch, who was reportedly in custody up to Saturday and later released, was the target of the shooting.
“We believe this is in furtherance of the ongoing conflict,” a senior policeman told The Gleaner.
Residents believe yesterday’s attack was orchestrated from outside the community and several people have since left the area. They said that some of the attacks are being ordered from prison, where the reputed leader of one of the warring factions is serving a life sentence.
The violence has also reportedly spread to several communities across the island and even overseas, where the factions have connections.
“Rohan say Kishi (Bryan) so dem wipe out who say him,” one resident said.
Bryan has not been seen or heard from since he was abducted from the community on July 24, 2021 by men reportedly dressed in police uniform and who were travelling in a Toyota Probox motor car.
Three men – Kemonie ‘Shella’ White, 29; his brother, Rushane ‘Barber’ White, 27; and Alex ‘Tecta’ Henry, 27 – were killed that same afternoon in what is believed to have been a reprisal after the police said they were not involved in Bryan’s disappearance.
Following that, there was the murder of Dennis Wilson in Papine Square on Independence Day last year.
On April 5, this year, in what the police deem an internal conflict, two men – 40-year-old Patrick Thompson and Yohan Green, who both lived in Park Lane – were killed.
The residents pointed to a further attack on May 26, at the Twin Gates Plaza in Half-Way Tree, where a car was peppered with bullets as it exited the location. The motorist survived the shooting.
The Gleaner was unable to reach St Andrew North divisional commander Senior Superintendent Aaron Fletcher for comments on yesterday’s deadly attack, which is being investigated by the Constant Spring CIB.
Up to July 6, the division had recorded a 25-per-cent year-on-year increase in murders, with 35 killings, up from 28 over the corresponding period in 2021.
Reports of shootings have also climbed by 13 per cent this year.
A total of 760 people have been killed islandwide.