{"id":1938,"date":"2018-11-14T22:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2018-11-14T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:01:52","slug":"quadruple-murder-suspect-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Quadruple murder suspect killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man classified as one of the suspects in the quadruple murder of three brothers and a spouse of one of the brothers in Masemure Meadows, Little London Westmoreland last Thursday, was cut down in a blazing gun battle with the police on Monday in the volatile Grange Hill community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One Luger 9mm pistol with a magazine containing two 9mm rounds of ammunition was also seized.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased has been identified as 38-year-old Leon Smith, otherwise called \u2018Rasta\u2019, of Geneva district, Grange Hill in the parish.<\/p>\n<p>Reports are that the police went to a four-apartment building in Geneva to execute a warrant, and were greeted with gunfire. The law enforcement team reportedly took evasive action and returned the fire. After the shooting subsided, a man, later identified as Smith, was found suffering from gunshot wounds. The firearm and ammunition were taken from him.<\/p>\n<p>He was later transported to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The matter has been reported to the Inspectorate of Constabulary (IOC), and the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), which have since launched a probe into the incident<\/p>\n<p>The Police say Smith was cited as a suspect in last Thursday\u2019s killing of 31-year-old mechanic Howard Humes, 23-year-old Shavane Humes, 33-year-old Paulton Humes, otherwise called \u2018Dwight\u2019 and his girlfriend, Keneisha Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>The three brothers who lived beside each other, had their doors kicked open by a group of men who sprayed them with bullets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man classified as one of the suspects in the quadruple murder of three brothers and a spouse of one of the brothers in Masemure Meadows, Little London Westmoreland last Thursday, was cut down in a blazing gun battle with the police on Monday in the volatile Grange Hill community. One Luger 9mm pistol with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,966,30,29],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-masemure-meadows","tag-western-jamaica","tag-westmoreland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}