By Prince Moore
The police were continuing their manhunt on Monday evening for members of a St James based criminal gang linked to Saturday's gun attack on a Police Constable and his family in Reading, St James, having already killed two of the suspects in the attack.
Two members of the gang, including its alleged leader, Andre Reid, were fatally shot during separate coordinated operations in St. Andrew and St James on Monday morning.
The operations were conducted in Seven Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew and Montego Bay, St James.
Both suspects were before the courts on charges of murder and were reporting to the police on condition of bail.
The police say Andre Reid - otherwise called Likkle Zullu - was reportedly fatally shot about 5:00 a.m., during a confrontation at Shooters Hill in Seven Miles with members of the Area 4 Fugitive Apprehension Team and personnel from the St James Police Division.
An AK47 assault rifle, with a magazine containing five rounds, was reportedly seized.
In the other targeted operation, a police team went to the districe of Mafoota in St James sometime after midnight where 33 year-old Lindel Gray - otherwise called Frass - was seen outside his one bedroom house. He reportedly opened fire at the police, which was returned.
Gray was wounded in the upper body and later pronounced dead at hospital.
One Uzi submachine firearm was reportedly recovered.
The police say Reid was the leader of the Top Junglist/Katan Defense Force Gang which operates out of Catherine Mountain, St James and Gray was reporedly a member of the same criminal organisation.
The police say both suspects operated as guns for hire.
It's alleged that Reid orchestrated the attack on the police constable and his family along the Reading main road on the weekend during a motor vehicle deal.
The policeman's spouse, 36-year-old Crystal Stephenson, was killed.
The couple's five year-old son and the constable remain in hospital.
The media were erroneously informed by the leadership of the St. James police division on Monday morning that the child had died.
Radio Jamaica News later received confirmation from Dr Delroy Fray, Clinical Coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority, that the child was still alive and in intensive care.
He was shot in the head during Saturday's attack.
Reid was before the court for the offences of murder, illegal possession of firearm and shooting with intent, while Gray was charged with murder.
Radio Jamaica News was informed that Reid was arrested and charged for a murder in Paradise Rowe in September 2009, but the case was dismissed in October 2010 due to a lack of evidence.
He was charged in 2013 for a triple murder along the North Gully in St James.
Three people, Rose Marie Reid, Keith Graham and Romaine Haughton were shot and killed in the attack.
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