NYPD hunting killers who gunned down J’can
Published:Wednesday | April 12, 2023 | 1:24 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
Investigators in New York City are still searching for two men who killed a Jamaican man outside a St Albans nightclub in Queens on Saturday.
The murder was caught on closed circuit television. Footage of the incident is being circulated on social media.
The victim has been identified as 23-year-old Jevaughn ‘Blingaz’ Jeminson.
According to the New York Post, Jeminson, who is of a Florida address and originally from east Kingston, was chased by two gunmen, who fired more than a dozen shots combined at the intersection of Selover Road and Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, about 2 a.m. Saturday.
The victim was taken to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Centre, where he died, the police said.
The attackers, who were dressed in hoodies, causally left the scene after the shooting, leaving Jeminson for dead.
When The Gleaner checked with the NYPD on Tuesday, a spokesperson said that the killers were still at large.
The police indicated that Jeminson was found with gunshot wounds to his torso.
When The Gleaner visited the Jeminsons’ east Kingston home community on Tuesday, residents acknowledged knowing him but declined to comment out of fear of the unknown.
One resident said the community was in a wait-and-see mode as they were not sure of the circumstances.
Our news team was told that Jeminson was the only son for his mother, who also resides in the United States.
The Gleaner was also told that Jeminson left Jamaica a little over two years ago.
His killing is the second such incident that has shocked the Jamaican community in the Tri-State area over the Easter holidays.
Last week, popular veteran music selector Ricky Trooper was left questioning God’s plan hours after his daughter was found murdered at her home in Connecticut in the United States.
Brianna Destiny McKoy, the 23-year-old mother of a one-year-old boy, was found unresponsive on Thursday around 11:20 a.m. inside her condominium in Bridgeport, the police said.
The Bridgeport police have since listed Derrick Francis, 41, as wanted in connection with the death of McKoy.
The police say Francis is known to frequent the North End in Bridgeport and Bronx, NY, and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Several members of the entertainment fraternity have publicly called for Francis to turn himself in to the authorities.