FOR THE past year Delano Waite, one of the country's most wanted men, managed to elude the police while committing a spate of crimes in the volatile east Kingston community of 'Dunkirk'. His reign of terror came to an end yesterday when he was killed in a shoot-out with members of the security forces.
Popularly known as 'Delly Bop', the 21-year-old fugitive was cut down in the McGregor Gully area of eastern Kingston, during a joint operation between the Special Anti-Crime Task Force and
members of the Eastern Kingston Police Division.
"He was wanted in connection with multiple murders, robberies and the burning of several houses in East and Central Kingston," Superintendent Assan Thompson told The Gleaner yesterday.
COUPLE MURDERED
The police said he was implicated in a vicious crime last month, in which a couple was murdered while they slept at their home in Dunkirk. Head of Operation Kingfish, Assistant Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, described 'Delly Bop' as a "deadly criminal".
"He was the leader of one of the gangs in Dunkirk and used to be protected by the citizens who then saw him as a protector, but he turned against the people in the latter stages," said ACP Hinds.
Reports are that 'Delly Bop' was killed about 11:15 a.m. An officer who was a part of the operation said Waite was about to fire at the police, but his 9-mm pistol jammed.
