Updated | Reputed gangster Richie Poo battling for life
Published:Thursday | January 7, 2021 | 12:31 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
Reputed gangster Richie Poo is now in hospital battling for life.
He was among five people shot yesterday during an attack along Old Hope Road in St Andrew.
One of the victims died.
Earlier, relatives of Richie Poo said, he too, had succumbed.
However, the police say he has survived but remains in critical condition.
People scampered along Old Hope Road yesterday as gunshots rang out during the late afternoon incident.
Richie Poo, whose real name is Kevin Tyndale, is a reputed member of the Gideon Warriors Gang based in August Town, St Andrew.
In September 2005, he was sentenced to three terms of 30 years in prison, each at hard labour, on conviction of illegal possession of a firearm, robbery with aggravation, and wounding with intent.
The sentences were to run at the same time.
However, 13 years later in 2018, Richie Poo was released on parole, the Department of Correctional Services confirmed.
The 30-year prison sentences related to the January 2002 shooting and wounding of a businessman during a robbery in Papine, St Andrew.
*NOTE: An earlier version of this story had quoted relatives as saying Richie Poo had died. However, the police say he is alive, but in a critical condition.