A five year old girl, Christina Salmon, was brutally shot and killed by gunmen in Glendevon, St. James yesterday, after her father dared to drive their family car through a blockade, and it was sprayed with bullets.
According to police reports, at approximately 8:30 a.m. yesterday, the father was transporting his two daughters to school. While traveling along Felicity Road in the dreaded crime-plagued community of Glendevon, he slowed to navigate debris which had been used to create a blockade, but as he did this, several gunmen mercilessly sprayed their vehicle with bullets, injuring all three.
The father, who had been shot in the mouth and neck, managed to drive the car with his blood-drenched daughters to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, where Christiana was pronounced dead, and he and the other child were treated. Their conditions were said to be serious.
Detectives from the Montego Bay CIB are probing the circumstances surrounding the gangland-style execution of five men in the in the tough Bird Hill area of Salt Spring early yesterday morning.
One of the dead men is still unidentified, while the others have been identified as 20 year old Cornel Brown, 23 year old Elton Hines, 20 year old Byron Powell and Damion Brooks.
According to police reports, at about 5:30 a.m. yesterday, gunmen invaded the community, and forced Brown and Hines to lie face down on the narrow roadway. They were then shot in the back of their heads.
The gunmen then went to a nearby house which was being occupied by Brooks, Powell and the unidentified man, where they sprayed them with bullets before setting the house ablaze, while their bodies lay inside the building in pools of blood. One of the occupants of the house was reportedly beheaded after he was shot.
Devon Reid, of a St. James address, appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court recently, where he faced allegations that he used profanity to a six year old boy before boxing (slapping him across the face) during a dispute over a toy car.
It is alleged that on December 13, 2009, in the district of Montpelier in St. James, the boy’s mother sent him to a shop, but when he later returned, he did not have her change and his face was swollen. He told her that Reid had hit him. She reportedly accosted Reid who she alleged pulled a machete on her. Reid in turn, told the court that his son had missed his toy car, and when he saw the complainant with it, he asked him to hand it over, and when he refused, he held on to him, and during that time his hand “might have caught the boy”. He added that he never intended to hit the child. He also said that when the child’s mother came quarelling, he walked away from her.
Reid’s bail was extended, and the Magistrate sent him along with the complainant’s mother to mediation in an effort to have it settled out of court.
Militant residents of Cornwall Courts and Green Pond mounted massive roadblocks yesterday, as they protested against the stench that emanates from the flow of raw sewage in the area. The residents complained that the flow of untreated effluent – accompanied by a strong offensive odor – is making life unbearable and unhealthy.
The protests come even as the National Water Commission (NWC) is scheduled to commence next week to construct a sewer main that will be used to discharge sewage from the housing scheme to the central sewage system in Bogue. The project is to be carried out by Tank Weld Ltd., and will see over 2.4 kilometres of sewer lines being run from King Street to Bogue.
