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Closing in on Chambers’ killers
2008-07-12 Written by: No Author
Charmaine Chambers (in black), widow of the late chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Douglas Chambers, along with their daughters Taylor (second right) and Kristine, comfort each other at Friday’s official funeral service.
As theories behind the murder of former Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) chairman, Douglas Chambers, continues to swirl, investigators say they are on track to arrest his killers within a week.
While sticking to the line that the killers are gang members, the investigators are not naming the gang that is suspected.
“The investigations are proceeding extremely well, but we are not making any statements, as we expect to make a breakthrough within one week. If we don’t, then we will make a public statement,” Assistant Commissioner Les Green said yesterday.
ACP Green was positive that suspects under investigation are gang members and information linking them to the killing was corroborated. However, he was not prepared to name the gang.
“We don’t want to frighten anybody, but we know who we are looking for,” Green said.
He said investigators did not confirm alleged murder suspect, Kayon Bryan, as one of Chambers’ killers. Bryan was killed in an alleged shootout with police in Spanish Town Friday evening.
Residents charged that the police went in search of the deceased man’s brother, Wayne Andre Bryan. Based on available information, the elder Bryan was recently detained and fingerprinted. Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Sharon Hay-Webster, challenged the veracity of the police account of the death of Kayon Bryan, saying she was told that the deceased was sitting on a wall when the police shot him in cold blood.
“It would appear as if the police are targeting PNP (People’s National Party) communities and that is not right. I, along with other law-abiding citizens, am not protecting Chambers’ killers, but innocent persons must not be executed,” Hay-Webster said.
Members of the Klansman gang, who are linked to the PNP, and who were said to be on the JUTC payroll, were fingered as prime suspects in the killing.
Last week, members of the transit company’s board denied the Sunday Herald’s report of an unsigned contract for over $2 million to members of the gang. But the board has promised to investigate the matter further.
2008-07-12 Written by: No Author Charmaine Chambers (in black), widow of the late chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Douglas Chambers, along with their daughters Taylor (second right) and Kristine, comfort each other at Friday’s official funeral service.
As theories behind the murder of former Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) chairman, Douglas Chambers, continues to swirl, investigators say they are on track to arrest his killers within a week.
While sticking to the line that the killers are gang members, the investigators are not naming the gang that is suspected.
“The investigations are proceeding extremely well, but we are not making any statements, as we expect to make a breakthrough within one week. If we don’t, then we will make a public statement,” Assistant Commissioner Les Green said yesterday.
ACP Green was positive that suspects under investigation are gang members and information linking them to the killing was corroborated. However, he was not prepared to name the gang.
“We don’t want to frighten anybody, but we know who we are looking for,” Green said.
He said investigators did not confirm alleged murder suspect, Kayon Bryan, as one of Chambers’ killers. Bryan was killed in an alleged shootout with police in Spanish Town Friday evening.
Residents charged that the police went in search of the deceased man’s brother, Wayne Andre Bryan. Based on available information, the elder Bryan was recently detained and fingerprinted. Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Sharon Hay-Webster, challenged the veracity of the police account of the death of Kayon Bryan, saying she was told that the deceased was sitting on a wall when the police shot him in cold blood.
“It would appear as if the police are targeting PNP (People’s National Party) communities and that is not right. I, along with other law-abiding citizens, am not protecting Chambers’ killers, but innocent persons must not be executed,” Hay-Webster said.
Members of the Klansman gang, who are linked to the PNP, and who were said to be on the JUTC payroll, were fingered as prime suspects in the killing.
Last week, members of the transit company’s board denied the Sunday Herald’s report of an unsigned contract for over $2 million to members of the gang. But the board has promised to investigate the matter further.
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