JUST over 24 hours after dancehall artiste Jahshii released a recording entitled False Alarm, in which he declared that his enemies “can’t kill mi so easy”, he escaped a suspected attack on his life as gunmen shot up a pickup truck in which he was travelling early Friday morning.

Six members of Jahshii’s entourage sustained gunshot wounds in the incident while the Born Fighter deejay, who was celebrating his 22nd birthday, emerged unscathed.

Police report that as Jahshii, whose birth name is Mluleki Tafari Clarke, and his entourage exited Market Place onto Constant Spring Road in a convoy about 4:15 am Friday, gunmen travelling on motorcycles broke a one-way, drove up to the pickup truck and opened fire, hitting the members of the entourage who were in the vehicle. It is said that a female was among those who received gunshot wounds.

According to the police, the artiste and his team were coming from a party at a club.

In False Alarm, which was released just before midnight on Wednesday, Jahshii belts out the lyrics, “Mi deh pon da stage yah wid a weapon near mi, weh nuh deh pon safety. A di whole place mi will tek and shake it. Can’t take my three points, a nuh Lebron James this. Dem haffi go witness blessed and greatness …I rather them than me. Can’t kill me so easy.”

The attack came exactly one month after the murder of 45-year-old Omar “Romie” Wright in Grant’s Pen, St Andrew, on June 7.

Following that killing, allegations emerged that the entertainer had exacted revenge on Wright for allegedly throwing water and spitting in the face of Jahshii’s mother, before kicking over a pot of soup that she was selling. Subsequently, the entertainer was said to be a person of interest in the murder. But after his attorney, King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, took him in to the police for an interview Jahshii was questioned and released.

Following his release members of his family, including his mother, in an interview with the Jamaica Observer disputed claims that Jahshii and the deceased had a grouse. The family also strongly refuted claims that Wright had offended Jahshii’s mother or Jahshii in any way.

Since the attack on the convoy Friday morning some of Jahshii’s relatives have claimed that they are confused as they search for a motive.

“We don’t know what it is coming off of or where it is coming from,” a deeply distraught relative explained.

Another of Jahshii’s relatives said that the release of False Alarm was not a good idea at this time, given what has been happening since last month following Wright’s killing.

“He was probably trying to find a hit song, but you can’t drop a song like that right now; it is just messed up from all angles,” said the relative whose name is being withheld.

On June 24 Jahshii’s mother told the Observer she was concerned for the safety of the family and her son, and accused vloggers of attempting to set up their lives by spreading rumours. She insisted that Wright’s and Jahshii’s families shared a good relationship.

The mother said that people needed to “do their research before they take up things on their head and [start] spreading it”.

She said that social media users had taken things to “an extreme and I am scared because of the vloggers who tell lies and hoist it like how you hoist a kite. Both families are close. I want the people to cut out the nonsense and stop bait up my life and Jahshii life. It is not good. Some a dem seh mi pack up and run weh but I don’t have anywhere to run to. We are tired of it now”.