Sunday morning, April 3. Just twelve hours after two men were shot and killed gangland style outside a recording studio and eatery near the police station in Brown’s Town, the narrow Wesley Crescent – hemmed in by shops and dwellings — was its usual self, Sunday morning.
There was not even security tape around the double murder scene at Wesley Corner, the street frontage to a recording studio and eatery where two men were shot dead as they drank with others, Saturday evening.
Dead are: 44-year-old Roxborough Bramwell also called Don King of Alexandria, St. Ann and 35-year-old Damion Clarke of Pasture Street, Ocho Rios, St. Ann.
Another man was shot and wounded and released from hospital, Sunday, according to police. He was not identified.
As eyewitnesses put it, a gunman entered the narrow street from the eastern end that is a maze of entrances and exits. He held his gun cocked swinging by his waist.
He walked straight up to the Foundation Ice Cream Village and pointed the gun at Roxborough Bramwell and fired at least twice. Bramwell fell on his face from the high wooden stool he often occupied
The other man, Clarke, sitting next to Bramwell reportedly stood up and was told, with expletives, to sit and he was then shot three times in the chest. He slumped forward onto a table.
It’s not clear when the third man was shot but though he was shot in the leg he ran to the police station, about 100 yards away.
Police however say it was Clarke who was shot first after Bramwell ducked behind him. They say Bramwell knew he was targeted and had received several death threats that he had not reported to police. Bramwell was before the court on a murder charge for the stabbing death of Lynval Douglas in Brown’s Town in 2014.
Bramwell, aka Don King, is well known in the area and a regular patron of the businesses where he was shot dead. The building at the front of which he was sitting contains a recording studio, an ice cream parlour and a cook shop, popularly known as Jerky’s. Across the road is a bar owned by the same proprietors and people sometimes purchase drinks there and repair to the outdoor comfort of the ice cream village.
People say that lately Bramwell seems to have come into some money and new friends.
Area, residents and business people say they knew something was likely to happen that day, Saturday. They say Don King had been drinking all morning at a bar across from the studio in front of which he was killed.
Later that day, Bramwell and Clarke, joined by another man were in loud conversations with others on the phone. People spoken to by The Times said they didn’t know what the arguments were about.
It was sometime after 9 p.m. when the gunman struck. The streets were full of people. There was a birth night party going on down the lane. The supermarket operated by Chinese was packed. The popular Foundation bar was also packed.
Don King and others were just outside the studio on a kind of patio when the attack took place. Up to Sunday morning, April 3, unfinished drinks were on the wooden rail to the patio. Blood was still on the floor.
During the attack people scattered. A man inside Jerky’S Cook Shop threw his daughter to the ground and stayed on top of her, to protect her. People jumped over fences including that of a hardware that backed onto the building where the attack took place.
It all happened within 150 yard of the Brown’s Town police station. The killer left on foot the way he had come.
Twelve hours later, a little girl well dressed, was coming from the shop and innocently walked up to the scene, pulled out one of the chairs, raised herself up and opened her bun and cheese package. A bartender called her away. Two policemen walked up the street, the second set for the morning.
