Another taximan slain in Norwood
March 13, 2008
Scores of commuters, including students plying the Hendon, Norwood and Glendevon to Montego Bay routes were left stranded yesterday morning after several angry taxi operators parked their vehicles in protest over the earlier gun-slaying of one of their colleagues.
The police have identified the slain man as 35-year-old Brookley Miller of Easy Street, Hendon, Glendevon.
Miller became the fourth taxi operator in the parish to be slain by gunmen since the start of this year.
Police reports are that Miller was operating his cab along the Hendon, Norwood mainroad at about 4:00 am yesterday when he was shot.
The irate taxi operators vented their disgust at being targeted by the armed men in the community and demanded increased police patrols in the volatile community to protect them.
The residents, in a show of solidarity with the taxi operators, used large boulders to mount several road blocks along some of streets leading from Hendon, Norwood and Glendevon.
Members of a heavy contingent of police who were deployed in the areas, managed to remove the roadblocks.
The death of the taxi operator follows closely on the heels of Sunday's killing of an elderly man in the gritty Hendon, Norwood community.
Police then reported that they salvaged the charred remains of grocery shop operator, 67-year-old George Cunningham of a Hendon, Norwood address from the rubbles of his shop which was completely razed by fire, believed to be sparked by his killers.
In the meantime the police have identified the partially-decomposed body found in a suitcase last week in the community as that of 13-year-old Oniel Foster of Hendon, Norwood.
Author: Horace Hines
Source: Jamaica Observer
