YESTERDAY THE body of 24-year-old Dwight Bascoe with several gunshot wounds lay in dust-filled streets of the White Wing Walk community in the Hunts Bay police area of St. Andrew. Several emotional residents, including the dead man's girlfriend, identified only as Audrey 'Marjorie' Robinson, gathered at the murder scene.
Their loss was apparent and their faces broadcast the despair they were feeling. Clutching the body of her late spouse, 'Marjorie's' wailing echoed throughout the tension-filled community. Distressed, confused and baffled by his death, she lay where her boyfriend took his last breath and began to roll in the bloodstained road. Friends, in an attempt to ease her pain, tried to console her.
Bascoe was said to be the latest victim of an ongoing feud which has also claimed the lives of three other members of his family over the past year. Last Sunday, his uncle, Patrick Douglas, who was killed earlier this month, was buried. About four months ago Mr. Douglas' grandson, Devonte Douglas, was killed. Last year, another member of the family, David Bascoe, alias 'Clive Bascoe', was murdered less than 100 metres from where his brother, Dwight, was killed yesterday.
"They are planning to wipe out the entire family, but we naah run wey lef we house," one member of the family told The Gleaner.
Deputy Superintendent Colbert Edwards, the Crime Officer for the St. Andrew South Police Division, linked the spate of killings and shootings to a gang feud in the community. Reports are, one of the deceased, David Bascoe, was the alleged community leader. Since his death there have been allegations that a group of deportees have returned to the community and vowed to control it. Hence, the targeting of Bascoe's relatives.
