MAN KILLED AT HOME IN FAIRY HILL
Eight people have been charged in relation to the murder of a man at his home in Fairy Hill Portland, nearly two weeks ago. All those charged are from outside of the parish.
Dead is 50-year-old Orlando Louden of Bamboo Tree Lane, Fairy Hill district in the parish. He was shot at home on Wednesday, August 7.
Three of the eight held have been charged with murder and the others with conspiracy to murder.
Those charged with murder are:
- Thirty-one-year Shane Phillips, otherwise called ‘Taliban’, of, Morris Meadows in St. Catherine
- Nineteen-year-old Dominique Perkins, otherwise called ‘Kentay’, a blockmaker of Sunrise Crescent, Kingston 19, and
- Eighteen-year-old Raheem Dixon, otherwise called ‘Squidly’, a tiler of Kirkland Heights, Kingston 19
Meanwhile, an additional five persons—including a teen boy—have been charged with conspiracy to murder. They are:
Thirty-year-old Xavier Carty, a taxi operator; twenty-one-year-old Chad Hylton, a landscaper, and nineteen-year-old Fabian McIntosh, a block maker all of Sunrise Crescent, Kingston 19; nineteen-year-old Caavan Jacobs, a labourer of Borne Road, Kingston 19 and a 17-year-old boy of Mannings Hill Road, Kingston 8.
Detectives say that at about 11:45 a.m., on August 7, 50-year-old Orlando Louden was at his home when two men armed with handguns pounced upon him and shot him several times. The men attempted to escape, but the quick response of the Portland Police saw three vehicles being intercepted on the Passley main road in the parish shortly after the incident. The occupants were arrested on suspicion and the investigators continued their probe.
Two firearms — Browning 9mm pistol, a Glock pistol, and fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition—were seized when investigators carried out systematic searches of one of the motor vehicles in the days following the incident.
Charges of murder and conspiracy to murder were subsequently laid against the eight men. Their court dates are being arranged.
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