Cops target more gang members after leader’s killing
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Following Thursday morning’s killing of a well-known gang leader in Burgher Gully, police have promised to continue going after other gang members and gunmen from the area.
Sixty-four-year-old Christopher ‘Muslim’ Murray, the leader of the Top Burgher Gully gang, was shot dead in a police operation in the East Kingston community.
Head of Area Four police, Assistant Commissioner Michael Phipps, said the authorities would not relent in going after the gang members and violence producers.
“We will continue to target the gunmen known to be operating in the Burgher Gully and surrounding areas. Our operations are ongoing,” Phipps told Observer Online.
Reports indicated that around 6:00 am, the police knocked on a door, and Murray immediately opened fire at the lawmen.
Police returned fire, and Murray was hit in the upper body. He reportedly fell, and police seized the illegal weapon, a .38 revolver containing four live rounds and two spent casings.
He was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), where doctors pronounced him dead.
Murray, the police said, was deported from the USA in 2021 after serving almost 30 years of a 40-year prison sentence for a 1992 murder.
Since his return to the community, the police said he assumed leadership of the area and had been arming young, vulnerable males with high-powered weapons.
These weapons are used to intimidate law-abiding citizens into submitting to his rule.
The police revealed that Murray’s brother, Donavan, otherwise called Pepsi, was the late leader of the same gang but had also been killed by lawmen in an operation.
-David Dunkley
