No arrests in targeted killing, police call for witnesses
(CNS): Just one gunman shot Divonte Alejandro Hernandez (25) in a targeted killing outside a George Town liquor store last Friday, police have said, but no one has been arrested yet. The suspect is described as tall and slim, and he was wearing black clothes and a mask at the time. Another man was driving the getaway vehicle, but it was heavily tinted so there is no description of him. The police recovered the Honda Fit after the shooting in Crewe Road.
Hernandez was gunned down just after 10am in the car park of Liquor 4 Less at the junction of Sound Way, Eastern Avenue and Shedden Road. The police say they plan to conduct a witness appeal at the scene of the crime this Friday morning, 6 October, exactly one week after the fatal shooting at the same time of day as the murder, hoping that people might be in the area who were also there last week as part of their regular routine.
“The murder would appear to have been a targeted attack, aimed specifically at the victim,” said Detective Superintendent Peter Lansdown. “The police understand that the community is concerned and upset by this incident. It’s a terrible loss of life that has left a family without a son and a young child, who was tragically a witness to the incident, without a father. “
Lansdown urged the public to help police track down the killer and his accomplice. “We ask that the community work with us to help locate and apprehend the culprits responsible,” he said. “The culprits are out there and likely in hiding, which means that members of the public are aiding them to evade the police. This in itself is a crime.”
Anyone with any information about the murder is encouraged to call the Major Incident Room (MIR) directly on 649 2930 and not through social media channels, where it can be misinterpreted and misrepresented. Police are also asking witnesses to make themselves known to police so that appropriate measures can be put in place to ensure their safety, rather than remain anonymous.
No arrests have been made as yet, despite reports on social media, but police said they are following numerous lines of enquiry, and the investigation progresses at pace.
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ENFORCE TRAFFIC LAWS EVERYDAY ALL DAY. That’s literally the start!
Damn these bastards we call the police! You see the Compass article? Because tint helped the murderer evade identification NOW the police have instructions to do something about it? Not that it was illegal and that is why they should do something about it?
Literally, people have to die before the police start doing their job.
This is all disgusting. They have been supervising our descent into chaos.
I called the police once asking them to tell my neighbor to stop burning bush in west bay. They told me to call town instead.
Get the freekin tint off you fools
One might think that on the 79 sq.ft island everyone’s step is practically recorded by one camera or another.
One might think that escaping from a crime scene at daylight without being caught on one camera or another is impossible.
One might think there are few roads and paths from the crime scene with SURELY at least one camera.
One might think that reviewing all camera’s records that are along the potential escape routes would reveal something especially when time of the crime is known.
One might think our useless police force could at least stop EVERY car with heavily tinted windows….there are many on the island all driven by the same type of driver….and force the removal of the tint and/or arrest the driver. But no. Of course not. Much too difficult.
We should also force the removal of the driver, and the person that applied the tint. That would end the problem pretty quickly.
Obviously, our CCTV camera system is crap. Also, are the police the only ones who don’t know who committed the murder?
They caught me for fighting in public within 5 mins at fosters from diamond marquis. How the f*** a murder happen n they couldn’t do the same
How about enforcing loitering laws?
Archies, Coe Wood beach, the numbers racket is so evident at these locations. Why isn’t it addressed?
Having people (the same peeps) just randomly hanging out day in and day out in the same locations needs to be addressed.
It’s one thing getting together to play a game of dominoes in the evening. It’s another when drunks, vagabonds and criminals are creating an undesirable atmosphere.
Why, after paying millions for the cameras that don’t seem to work, is govt not demanding our money back???
Poor Pete is in over his head.
Are there no cameras in that area for even a grainy photograph?
If you know there is illegal organized crime going on with the numbers racket, it should be relatively simple to determine who is running the show and who is trying to take it over.
Shut the bloody thing down as this is at least the second murder victim tied to this illegal activity.
They can’t shut down illegal tint in a parked, unaccompanied, car.
How the hell do you expect them to deal with the implications of busting an overt numbers racket – especially with so many of the “uniformed services” reputed to be around the periphery?
Legge was right!
you cant shut numbers down because Sir Alden said he didnt want to arrest the old Caymanian who is gambling illegally!
Alden is not in charge of the police. If they are not willing to enforce our laws, all of them, with equal tenacity and consistency, they should resign.
If the Governor is not able to require them to enforce our laws with equal tenacity and consistency, she should resign.
If no one resigns, and we still do not have enforcement of our laws, they should be fired.
How many on the police force play numbers?
How many officers are running numbers?
No cameras? Only in Cayman
But our government paying a contract to service and maintain them….yikes!
Rest in peace my brother, justice getting served one way or another
Heavily tinted windows? Isn’t that illegal?
Do you not see you have have become complicit? It is ineptitude and a refusal to enforce the laws of this country that blind you. Not the tint – which you were sworn to prevent from blocking your view!!!
Dammit!
Tint can be installed overnight. Not the police’s fault.
Bullshit. Customs clears it. The DCI licenses businesses that provide it. WORC provides work permits to the people that install it. The RCIP watches (probably) hundreds of vehicles with illegal tint drive around with less interest than a frog exhibits watching porn.
Cayman regulators and uniformed branches of our government facilitate this, every step of the way.
The public has had enough.
go to the police station staff parking lot. When I went to pay my fine for a tint I took a picture of all but 5 cars in the lot having illegal tints! They all have them
That would make them corrupt and worthy of nothing but disdain, wouldn’t it?
BS. You don’t pay fines at the Police station. You pay fines at the court.
Maybe the judges all have dark tint?
Nice try.
Yep and with million dollar helicopters, boats, cars, uniforms and dogs and can’t even catch a criminal. What a damn embarssement.
To be fair, they are down a dog.
RIP Baron.
Who should be arrested first is the witch who has been reporting fake news on this, potentially compromising the RCIPS investigation
Check the Attorney General and Mac. They have presided over the #shitshow. Maybe they know something?
And do we even have a Governor – and who the hell are they getting their information from?
Why do we not have radar monitoring boat traffic between us and Jamaica?
Why do our license plates not function as promised?
What happened to that amazing CCTV system we set up?
100 square miles. That’s it. A few roundabouts. Nothing terribly complicated. And how many officers do you have?
Hundreds….that we know about. Keyboard warriors and “compliance” personnel inflate this number.
The Cayman Islands is located in the western Caribbean surrounded by Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Belize and Jamaica what we need is a radar monitoring all the boat traffic between these countries. stop focusing on just one point of interest. no wonder we cannot get a handle on crime.
Priorities. Deal with the biggest problem first, then turn attention to the others.
i thought the law against tinted windows was in effect. obviously not from the way there are so many tinted window cars on the road.
Yup. The cops don’t enforce the law and then complain about the consequences of them not enforcing the law, while demanding more money so that we can pay them even more not to enforce the law.
Imagine driving a heavily tinted vehicle knowing the chances of being randomly stopped are next to zero.
Might as well drive without plates, too.
Oh, wait.