Gang feud linked to double killing in Spanish Town
Published:Friday | July 29, 2022 | 12:05 AMRuddy Mathison/Gleaner Writer
The killing of two men whose decomposed bodies were found in bushes along a canal behind the Spanish Town motor vehicle examination depot on Job Lane are believed to be gang related.
The police are yet to disclose details of how they were killed but theorise that the deaths are linked to an ongoing gang feud in Spanish Town.
Residents who claimed they saw the bodies before crime-scene personnel arrived, recounted, however, seeing a long wound to the head of one of the men identified as 32-year-old Garrie Myers of Fairfield Road, Spanish Town.
Myers was released from prison in February after serving time for gun-related charges.
His mother, Charmaine McKenley, said she last saw him on Friday, July 22, when he left her house with the intention of visiting his child’s mom.
“I never hear from him again, and when him babymother say she nuh hear from him since Saturday, mi get concerned because him never take so long to make contact with us,” McKenley told The Gleaner.
McKenley said they were able to identify Myers’ body by a cast on his right hand and the clothes he was wearing. According to her, he sustained a fracture in April when he visited his son in Gregory Park and was attacked by unknown assailants who shot him in the arm.
“Him a good father to him two boys, and since him come back from prison, mi do everything to help him, but mi nuh know of him involvement,” the mother said.
“Him learn cabinet work and mi a try to get one machine so him can start him own business.”
Myers’ babymother, who declined to disclose her name, confirmed that she, too, had last seen Myers at home with her on Saturday.
“Him lef’ Saturday about 2 p.m. when some men come call him. Mi nuh hear from him after that,” she said in a Gleaner interview.
Several calls to his phone went unanswered, but the child’s mother attested to strange voices answering his phone on Sunday.
She reported him missing on Monday, a claim that has been confirmed by the police.
A small-scale livestock farmer who reportedly went to feed his pigs reportedly discovered the bodies in bushes and alerted the police.
The other deceased man has been identified only by his alias, ‘Maestro’. He is believed to be from Kitson Town.