Detective says ‘Deebo’ murder still a live inquiry

| 15/06/2021 | 16 Comments
Cayman News Service
Damean Dwayne Seymour

(CNS): The investigation into who killed Damean Dwayne Seymour (34), better known as “Deebo”, is still an active inquiry in which police are pursuing a number of leads that have led them to look for his killer overseas. At a Coroners Court hearing on Friday, Detective Inspector Adeniyi Collins Oremule told a jury that Seymour’s murder is not a cold case, even though it is more than four years old.

Oremule said that because the investigation is by no means over, he was unable to fully answer the inquest jury’s questions, as they deliberated on what was ultimately decided as an unlawful killing. Seymour was shot multiple times in the head and body in broad daylight in Central George Town in 2016, and police believe this was a professional hit that was likely linked to his criminal lifestyle.

Seymour’s body was found lying on the ground by his sports car at around 11:30am on 28 November on Martin Lane in central George Town. He had been shot in the back, chest and head, sustaining five gunshot wounds. The jury heard from the first police officer on the scene, who arrived within minutes of the 911 call about the shooting. That officer, who is also a trained medic, told the court that it was evident Seymour was already dead when he arrived.

Seymour was known to the local police as he was a suspect in a number of serious crimes. He had left Cayman for the UK following an acquittal in 2008 for an attempt to kill Adolphus Myrie in almost the same spot where he met his own end. That was the third serious criminal allegation he had dodged in four years. In 2004 he faced charges for the murder of Joseph Alexander Williams but a judge ruled there was no case to answer, and in 2007 he was found not guilty of armed robbery for the West Bay Foster’s Supermarket heist.

Seymour had been back in Cayman for just over one year when he was gunned down on the George Town street. As the investigation opened that morning, police found a loaded gun and drugs in his car. But despite a number of live leads, the police met with a wall of silence even though there were many people in and around the area when he was shot.

Oremule explained that the police have always struggled to get public support in the area, which complicated the investigation. One person who did speak with the police confirmed that Seymour was dealing drugs on the street openly.

The only arrest made in the case was a woman who police believed was the killer’s getaway driver, but no charges have been brought against her. However, Oremule told the court that he believed the case would eventually be resolved as inquiries continue.

The inquest jury was tasked with determining the limited questions of the Coroners Court, with few doubts about what happened, even if the ‘who’ is yet to be resolved. Since it was clear that Seymour did not take his own life and that it was not an accident, the jury was left to conclude that it was an unlawful killing.


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  1. caymanian says:

    Fix the schools and put money onto the youth of the island.
    Stop worrying about dead gangsters worry about the ones coming out of school with nothing to do, but watch foreigners take their jobs and homes away. DO BETTER FOR OUR YOUTH>
    And please stop hiring JAMAICAN POLICE on a CAYMANIAN island

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    • Anonymous says:

      Foreigners won’t work on minimum wage, your jobs are safe.

    • Anonymous says:

      Have you really looked closely at these photos of these “gangstas” primping up their sad assed selves and/or asked any of their teachers what it was like to “teach” them in school ( aka trying to stop them wrecking the classes and prevent good kids from learning)? You say fix the schools and put money into the youth of the island. I notice you said nothing about the parents ( usually just a deadbeat woman deserted by a wastrel of a man gone on to make the next deadbeat woman pregnant). Do you seriously….seriously…think foreigners are taking jobs from our kids and making them killers? Is that what it’s all about, 10:12?

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  2. Anonymous says:

    Maybe police should offer a decent amount of money for a conviction of the killers. Nobody aint testifying for that chump change. They will pressure you to testify and barely care about your protection.

    • Anonymous says:

      Maybe people should rat on killers instead of quarantiners.

    • Anonymous says:

      Maybe people who bitch and complain that the police won’t take killers and drug dealers off the street should.. oh I donno.. open their damned mouths and say what they know so the killers and drug dealers can be taken off the streets. Those who moan and bitch that the police don’t do anything but don’t step forward and offer information when asked need to shut the hell up and conitnue living in the rat hole they do.

    • Anonymous says:

      You realise that it’s nothing to do with the police? Their remit is to investigate crime impartially.

      Like someone else mentioned, it’d be great if people informed police about scumbags who really bring down an area.

  3. Anonymous says:

    This is what is keeping them so busy they can’t do functional law enforcement?

  4. Anonymous says:

    Jamaica

  5. Anonymous says:

    So when was the last interview, or expert report, or formal file review., or telephone call made? It may not be a cold case, but it looks chillier every month.

  6. Gray Matter says:

    The amount of killings around this island , the killer of this person is probably dead himself from another killer. , and on and on.
    They are chasing down ghost’s. Just a waste of the people’s money.

  7. Anonymous says:

    sorry aren’t these all gang bangers?

  8. Anonymous says:

    Live by the gun, u die by the gun

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