FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.47
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ANOTHER BLOODY WEEKEND
Conelius Brent Hackshaw was gunned down at the usually well-patronised Young Island Dock.
Sometime after 9am on Friday 15th November, Cornelius Hacksaw, aka Brent, who was said to be originally from the Campden Park-Questelles area but resided recently in Arnos Vale, was shot at the Young Island dock, Villa. A source said Hackshaw was on the dock when a car pulled up and an unknown man exited the vehicle. The man opened fire on Hacksaw, hitting him multiple times about his body. The gunman calmly re-entered the vehicle, which then left the scene. A sign was found near Hacksaw body as it lay on the jetty. The sign read, “When you owe pay”, and at least one person ventured to say that it was left by the gunman. The area is one of the country’s main tourist and hospitality centres of activity.
the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital where he had undergone treatment after being shot. The surgical cast that hugged the top part of his body as he lay motionless on Saturday told the story of the injuries he sustained four days before he ultimately met his death. One Fairbaine Pasture resident said there might be many people who would feel a sense of ease and comfort, as bad as it sounds, by John’s death. That person described John as “provoking.. always in your face… who behaved this way because people said he looked like the Chinese Movie star Bolo (Yeng) who always played ‘Bad Johns’ in his movies.”
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Jelani ‘Bolo’ John (photo unavailable) was shot four days before he was shot again and put down for good.
Romano Durham
The spate of killings killing continued in the West The following day, Saturday Kingstown community of Romano ‘Spookie’ Durham Edinboro. 16th November, during the was shot to death in the Sometime between 10 and community which he resided. early morning hours, Jelani 11am on Sunday 17th John, aka Bolo, 37, of November, 24-year-old Fairbaine Pasture, was shot to by KENVILLE HORNE Romano Durham, also referred death in the community. His bullet-ridden body was to as ‘Killa Bean’ and THREE MALES were shot to ‘Spookie’, was sitting under a death in the space of three days, discovered in a neighbour’s shed in his community of yard sometime between 6 and pushing the homicide count to 7am, leading some residents to Edinboro, when a gunman 44. appeared and opened fire, This figure exceeds the 2022 conclude that he might have hitting Durham about his been shot elsewhere and had (42) count by two and falls body, a source told THE tried to escape. short, to date, by 11 over the VINCENTIAN. John, no stranger it 2023 record figure of 55. Information received said appeared to the world of that Durham made an attempt violent crime, had only Brent Hackshaw to run but did not escape the recently been discharged from
Jelani John
Meanwhile, some residents of Fairbaine Pasture say theywill feel safer now that Jelani ‘Bolo’ John is gone. gunman, who ensured that Durham was dead by pumping more bullets into him as he fell to the ground. The incident is said to have occurred in the vicinity of the Edinboro hard court not far from where the deceased lived. Members of the community were for the most part tight-
lipped about the incident, save and except to say that they hoped Durham’s death was not the beginning of a resurgence of violent crime in the communities of Top Edinboro and neighbouring Ottley Hall. Police investigations into the three shooting deaths are ongoing.