Hanover most wanted man shot dead
HANOVER, Jamaica – The Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) is confirming that one of Hanover’s most wanted men is dead.
He has been identified as 33-year-old Shenarda Leslie, otherwise called ‘Blacks’, of Mount Pleasant district in the parish.
According to the JCF Corporate Communications Unit, Leslie was among a group of men who fired shots at the police during an operation in Green Island in the parish Friday night.
Reports are that about 8:50 pm a team of officers was conducting operations in the area when they signalled the driver of a Toyota Corolla motorcar to stop. The men disobeyed the signal and instead opened gunfire at the team. The police countered the attack and Leslie was later found with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at hospital. The other occupants escaped in the area.
A 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol with four 9mm cartridges was seized in the incident.
Leslie was allegedly the leader of the One Voice Gang following the incarceration of Yasser James.
He was implicated in at least fifteen murders in the Hanover Division over the past eight months.
These murders include: Andre McKenzie, otherwise called ‘Kush’ who was killed in Williamsfield district on November 12, 2016; Malik Dixon who was killed in Williamsfield district on December 24, 2016. Two other men were injured in that incident; A triple murder in Williamsfield, including a one-year-old and a five-year-old child. Three others were shot and injured in that incident on January 18; A triple murder in Dias on March 24 where one man was also shot and injured; A double murder in Middlesex on May 26; A murder in Malcolm Heights on June 14 where a woman was also shot and injured.
He was also implicated in Hanover’s most recent quadruple murder, which occurred in Mount Pleasant district on June 13.
Leslie has also been featured in a number of other shooting incidents in the parish.