BY FABIAN LEDGISTER, Staff Reporter
ERROL LEWIS TOILED daily as a labourer, avoided illegal activity, and earned little but honest money to sustain his family. He was brutally murdered on Sunday by gunmen.
Although many of the island's murders are eventually linked to gang wars, police are lamenting that some of the latest murders have been "soft targets."
"Whenever a gunman cannot find his target, he resorts to killing a totally innocent person that is connected to his target, by relation, association, or even by just living in the community," explained a senior officer from the Denham Town Police Station.
Reports are that at approximately 6:45 a.m., a labourer, Errol Lewis, 37,was walking along Maxfield Avenue on his way to work, when a group of armed men pounced upon him.
SOFT TARGET
The men reportedly carried Lewis to an unknown premises, bound and gagged him, and shot him several times in his head, chest, and arms. He was pronounced dead at Kingston Public Hospital.
Two live 9mm rounds, one 9mm spent shell, and 2 AK 47 spent shells were found on the scene.
"We suspect that Lewis was a soft target, having some link with the gunmen's initial target ... it is a sad practice but these men have no morals," explained the officer.
Officers say Lewis was known as a good man, and according to their records, had no involvement in crime.
"This is the same thing that occurred on Barnes Avenue. If you can't catch quarky you catch him shirt" explained the Operations Officer for the Hunts Bay Police Station, Superintendent Oswald Ayre.
Ayre referred to the firebombing of a house on Barnes Avenue, that resulted in the horrific deaths of four innocent "soft targets," including 10-year-old Sasha-Kay Brown.
Ayre explained that they lost their lives because their uncle was a known criminal that had made some dangerous enemies. When he could not be found, they exacted revenge on his family instead.
"This is just ghetto laws, if a man borrows a gun and loses it, the entire family is held responsible for paying for the gun, or they will ALL pay with their lives," attests Detective Inspector Altermorth Campbell.
Police lament this trend, and warn all persons associating with criminals to realise that they are endangering themselves by just being seen with these gunmen.
"Those who move with criminal entities not only endanger themselves, but also the lives of all their family and friends," charged Campbell.
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