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HIGH ALERT AFTER ‘MONSTER’ KILLED Alleged gang leader gunned down in targeted shooting By TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER POLICE and prison officials are on high alert after the fatal shooting of alleged gang leader Duran Neely - known as “Monster” - with authorities fearing his death could trigger violent retaliation. Neely, 37, the alleged head of the Dirty South gang, was gunned down Monday night in a suspected hit believed to have been carried out by a rival gang. He had long been regarded as a central figure in New Providence’s gang landscape, often described as a “ghost” because he was never directly tied to much of the violence he was suspected of orchestrating. Neely was twice arrested in late 2015 and early 2016 — first on suspicion of armed robbery and possession of an unlicensed firearm, and again for an unspecified offence — but released both times without charge. He later sued the Attorney General for unlawful arrest and detention. In September 2023, the Supreme Court awarded him $26,000 in damages. Over the years, he faced charges including murder and conspiracy to commit murder, though many of those cases ended without convictions. He was represented by National Security Minister Wayne Munroe, KC, before Mr Munroe entered
DURAN ‘MONSTER’ NEELY
POLICE at the scene on Munnings Road where Duran ‘Monster’ Neely was shot to death on Monday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
MONSTER - SEE PAGE FOUR
Davis gives no comment POLICE DENIED MOM VIEWING on Watson’s nomination burned son’s body at scene By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
By DENISE MAYCOCK AND LYNAIRE MINNINGS Tribune Staff Reporters
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis would not say yesterday if ZNS general manager Clint Watson would receive the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) nomination for Southern Shores, but added: “He’s expressed interest for running for quite some time.” When asked to confirm or deny if sitting Southern
THE grieving mother of 13-year-old Montana Ferguson was left shattered yesterday when police denied her pleas to view her son’s body as it lay in the ruins of a house fire that claimed his life. Erica Ferguson begged officers to let her see the remains of her twin son, but they refused while
PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis. Photo: Nikia Charlton Shores MP Leroy Major would be renominated, Mr NOMINEE - SEE PAGE THREE
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investigators were still in the early stages of their probe. Montana had been staying overnight at a friend’s home in Crown Haven, Abaco, when the blaze started shortly after 3am He became trapped inside the single-storey wooden house and died despite frantic rescue efforts by neighbours, who broke windows and threw buckets of EQUIPMENT - SEE PAGE TWO