Headlines:
| Police on watch for reprisals following rampage at Portmore nightclub |
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| Thursday, 02 July 2009 | |
 The police are on Thursday afternoon keeping a close
watch on sections of Olympic Gardens following Thursday morning's deadly attack
at the Live Wire Enterprise nightclub, formerly La Roose, in Portmore St.
Catherine, which left four men dead.A senior officer at the Hunts Bay Police Station told RJR News the cops have stepped up patrols in the Coburn Gardens community to prevent reprisals. The cops are also searching for eight men and three women who reportedly carried out the bloody attack. When our News team visited the Port Henderson Road based club in the aftermath of the shooting, the area was awash with blood, abandoned shoes other articles of clothing, telltale signs of the terror which had unfolded hours before. Senior investigators attached to the Area Five Police were busy combing for clues. Those killed are the club's owner Ricardo Thomas, his brother Kirk Thomas, both of Charlemont Drive, Kingston 6; David Wisdom also known as Biggs of Lyndale Avenue, Kingston 20 and Andrew Walker, whose alias is Mampy Zeeks of August Town in Kingston 7. A fifth man was also seriously injured in the shooting. The police believe the incident may be linked to a shooting which occurred in Olympic Gardens last weekend. According to a source close to the investigation, eight men armed with M16 rifles entered the club in two vehicles, posing as policemen. They then approached the men who were sitting at the bar. The men are believed to have been working with three women who were already inside the club as the women are said to have embraced the men just before the shooting started. The men and the three women fled during the ensuing confusion. When the shooting subsided it was discovered that five persons had been shot, four fatally. During a subsequent search a nine millimetre Smith and Wesson pistol with 11 rounds of ammunition was found on the outside of the perimeter fencing. The Thomas brothers are said to have missed a flight out of the island Wednesday. A year ago Ricardo Thomas was on the country's most wanted list. He was nabbed by the police at a house in Barbican, St. Andrew on October 18 reportedly in possession of two 9 millimetre pistols and 49 rounds of ammunition. Thomas was given three years probation and fined one million dollars in the Gun Court in December. He was also linked to an 18 month upsurge in violence in Cockburn Gardens in which 60 persons were killed. He was also wanted for the 2004 murder of Devonde Lawla on White Walk, Kingston 11. Mampy Zeeks is reputed to be an August Town area leader. In March of last year eight persons were shot during the popular British Link Up Dance at the Club. Clifton Reid, 47 of Lincoln Road in Kingston was killed in the shooting. The Club was then ordered closed by the Police but reopened earlier this year under the name Live Wire Enterprise. |