Police at the Old Hope Road scene where 36 year-old Shawn Hamilton, brother of a reputed 'don' of a section of the Nannyville community in Eastern Kingston, was gunned down by two men yesterday. In foreground is the Honda motor car Hamilton had travelled in to check on repairs to his white Nissan Super Saloon, shown here on a flatbed wrecker. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

Shawn Hamilton, 36, brother of a reputed 'don' of a section of the eastern St Andrew community of Nannyville, was gunned down by two men as he waited to have his white Nissan Super Saloon fixed at a radiator specialist at high noon yesterday.

Spectators ignored the blazing sun as they gathered around the lifeless body of Hamilton sprawled out in a pool of blood on Old Hope Road in the Swallowfield area of St Andrew.
Police say two men pounced on him and one shot him in the neck. Hamilton then ran across the street and fell on the asphalt before his killers stood over him and shot him in the head. He died on the spot.

Hamilton, police say, had driven a blue Honda Accord to the scene to check on his car. He was waiting with two men who had travelled with him when his assassins struck swiftly. His two companions, who were not harmed by the gunmen, ran for their lives as the bullets were being pumped into Hamilton's body.

Police investigators say they received information that Hamilton was involved in two murders over the past week.

"The man lying on the ground is a top 'shotta' from Nannyville. His death is a result of a war that cannot end in the Nannyville community," one cop told the Sunday Observer.
No one on the death scene saw what happened. "I just come here and looking like everyone else," a member of the large group of people who had gathered behind police lines, said. Others just looked on glumly and someone chipped in that the dead man was not from the area.

But a baffled police constable on the scene was not being taken in by their see-no-evil claim.
"I don't believe that no one saw anything," the cop told this reporter.
Hamilton lived in the war-torn Nannyville community in an area known as "Texas" or "Top Nannyville". Police sources say Hamilton was the brother of the don for "Texas", who is known as "Dellmar".

Hamilton is the latest victim of an ongoing war between gangs from "Texas" and an area known as "Angola" or "Bottom Nannyville".
"Angola", police say, is controlled by a don known as "Drama" and his crony "Evil Man".
Nannyville has experienced spurts of gun-related violence for over a decade and efforts to broker peace by the police, the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), churches and political representatives, have so far failed.

A sister of Hamilton told the Sunday Observer that last Saturday a group of gunmen shot up their house. Luckily no one was injured.
"Dem think say Dellmar and Shawn was there and some man with mask come and fire up a whole heap a shot. No one never get hurt still," the shaking woman said.

Her younger brother's body was clad in a white merino and short jeans pants. A single foot of a black pair of Vikings shoes hung loosely on his left foot. The right shoe was a distance of 10 feet away from his body.
Last Saturday, Richard Williams, also called "Country", 35, was found shot dead in his home in Nannyville. Police say residents heard gunshots in the wee hours of the morning and at daybreak, Williams' body was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

A few hours later, 30 year-old Sheridon Lewinson, also called "Ally", was shot in the Standpipe area while watching a basketball game. The Constabulary Communication Network reports that two men approached him and one took out a handgun and shot him, killing him on the spot.
Sources in the Nannyville area say "Ally" had been deported from England for drug offences and was killed because he was said to be close to men from Angola.

In November last year, house-to-house searches were conducted during a joint police/military operation, after gang-violence erupted there. During a curfew imposed on the area, the police recovered an Uzi submachine gun, and Intratec 9mm and a stick of dynamite. Five persons were also taken into custody for questioning at the time.
The curfew was imposed on the area after the brazen daylight murder of Delroy "Fishy" Grey along Mountain View Avenue, hours before the Herro Blair-led PMI had planned a peace march in the area. Because of Grey's murder, the march was called off.

Grey lived in the "Angola" area and police reported at the time that he was involved in the gun-slaying of Maxine Johnson, a security guard who was on duty at the Ashe centre in Nannyville the day she was killed.
Police say a man was shot in both legs three days before Grey was gunned down.
Since then, police have kept a close watch on Nannyville and have carried out regular foot and motorised patrols in the area.

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