THE Jamaican man suspected to be the primary shooter in last October’s massacre that left four dead and 11 injured in Southwest in Los Angeles (LA) is now in custody, Captain Peter Whittingham of the LA Police Department (LAPD) confirmed yesterday.
LAPD, which has labelled the Jamaican a ‘don’, gave his identification as Marlon St Aubyn Logan, alias ‘John John’, who eluded police for almost eight months, following the bloody clash between two gangs at a party in an underground Jamaican restaurant in that California city.
Reputed Jamaican gang leader Robert Davis, also known as ‘Rodigan’, of Maxfield Avenue in Kingston, and three other men were shot dead, when armed men invaded the birthday celebration on Rimpau Boulevard in the West Adams neighbourhood in Southwest, Los Angeles.
Whittingham, a former Jamaican immigration officer who rose from the sprawling slums of Canterbury, St James, to his lofty position in one of America’s finest police departments, is commanding officer of the Criminal Gang/Homicide Division which hunted Logan.
“It helped that as a Jamaican I understood how Jamaicans operate,” he told the Jamaica Observer in an interview, in which he confirmed that Logan was caught on June 1, 2017, in LA, after a lengthy manhunt made difficult because of the suspect’s many aliases.
“Even though he was known as a don, it took us a while to catch him because he had multiple aliases and we could not find anyone who knew his correct name or who was willing to tell us,” Whittingham said.
Gunfire erupted at Dilly’s Kitchen in the 2900 block of Rimpau Boulevard after two men confronted another man and fatally shot him. A total of nine men and six women were killed in the firefight as an estimated 50 party patrons ran for cover. The dispute likely arose from a drug deal gone bad, Whittingham was quoted as saying at the time.
He told the Observer yesterday that the gang members had migrated from Jamaica and continued their activities in LA. The search for them was assisted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Jamaican police.
Rodigan was said by Jamaican police to be the leader and financier of the Rat Bat Gang based on Sunlight Street in the lower section of Maxfield Avenue in Kingston. At the time of the incident, it was feared that the killing could set off a fresh round of clashes with Rodigan’s gang and its affiliate Sunlight Street Gang against the rival Raspberry Gang.
When him hear life or death penalty jr say not me one lol he say we share the crime we shall share the time oh well it always go so don’t
Junior ah chattttt well he didn’t do it alone shittttt
They had John John from the beginning and released him and now them gone back fi him. I wonder what evidence they gathered…interesting.
classy chris, how you feeling ma?
kadion a hope when them nab u step father bush u post it on fb like how u post up john john own ok long short ketch.
U bitches be worried about the wrong things
Kadion get f**k outta here! A kill dem a guh kill BUSH like how them kill your thieving BATTYMAN Brother!! A nuff f**kery bush a keep up and all the rob him a rob him still cah better……The youth them from Atlanta wha Bush an him friends them rob last year tie them up and leave them in a garage don’t think them fi get bout it! So to miss kadion only when bush get what’s coming to him you post it on Facebook!