Police seek killers in Maverly double murder
May 15, 2007
HOMICIDE detectives from the St Andrew South police division were up to late last night trying to find the killers of two men who were shot in the volatile community of Maverley in St Andrew early yesterday morning.
The dead men have been identified as Michael Lunan, 45, also called 'Mikey Foreigner' and 18-year-old Andrew Smith, also called 'Pong'.
Police say they were summoned to the area by residents who reported hearing explosions shortly after 3:00 am. The bullet-riddled bodies of the Lunan and Smith were found at Stow Road in the community shortly after.
Lunan was employed to Solid Agency - the company which manages dancehall acts Bounty Killer, Wayne Marshall, Bling Dawg, Busy Signal, Aidonia and Mavado.
Yesterday head of Solid Agency, Sharon Burke, was beside herself with grief.
"Michael was the life of Solid, we are going to miss him," she told the Observer.
The police were unable to confirm if Lunan was the victim of a reprisal attack for the double murder of two men, identified as Nyron Edwards and 'Mexican' in the community in May of 2004. According to an Observer source, Lunan - who at the time was a strongman in the community - had ordered the men killed after they refused to obey orders issued by him.
"We are looking into a number of motives but he (Lunan) was linked to that double killing. We had a warrant for his arrest in that matter," said Deputy Superintendent Michael Phipps, crime chief for the St Andrew South Police Division.
Yesterday morning the area was tense, with some residents claiming ignorance of the incident.
"I don't know about any murder," one woman said, as she walked briskly along Stow Road.
The double murder brought to six the number of killings reported by the police between Sunday and yesterday morning.
Also listed among the dead is 20-year-old Dwight Senior, also called 'Chicken', who was shot by a gunman as he stood with a group of persons at Ambrook Lane about 5:30 pm on Sunday....
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
