THE police say they have held two suspects in the February murder of retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Denzil ‘Roy’ Boyd, and that the gun used to slay the cop was the same one used to cut down Assistant Commissioner Gilbert Kameka almost six years ago.

“Two suspects have been taken into custody about a week now. They were arrested in a St Catherine community,” head of the Major Investigation Task Force Senior Superintendent Michael Phipps told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.

Boyd was slaughtered as he returned from church to his home in Queensborough, St Andrew, with his wife on Sunday, February 24.

He was stopped by two men as he exited his car, and after a brief conversation, the men shot the 63-year-old retired cop. He was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

During a thanksgiving service for Boyd at Covenant Moravian Church on Molynes Road in Kingston, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and Phipps had indicated that the police were hot on the heels of the killers.

Yesterday, a highly placed police source told the Observer that the suspects are linked to the deadly Klansman gang in Spanish Town and have ties to a tough Corporate Area neighbourhood off Spanish Town Road.

The police source also said that ballistic reports indicated that the weapon used to kill Boyd was also the one used to slay Kameka at a premises in Irish Town, St Andrew on November 29, 2007.

Kameka was reportedly visiting 18-year-old Tina-Gaye McGowan when he was attacked and shot.

McGowan pleaded guilty to conspiring with 26-year-old Massinissa Adams, a former member of the Gideon Warriors gang; 18-year-old Kemar Dawson; and 21-year-old Rohan Townsend to rob Kameka who remains the most senior member of the constabulary to be cut down by gunmen’s bullets.

In November 2008, she was given a three-year suspended sentence for co-operating with government prosecutors.

Adams, Dawson and Townsend were found guilty and sentenced to death. The weapon used to kill Kameka was never recovered by police.

“We theorise that Adams told one of his cronies in prison where to find the weapon, and that was when it resurfaced some five years after,” the police source said. “Ballistic tests also revealed that the same gun was also used in a murder at the Causeway Fishing Village last year.”

Boyd was in charge of security at the Causeway Fishing Village when he was killed.