Jamaica’ most wanted gangster killed

The man said to have topped the country's most wanted list has been killed.

Dead is Cedric Murray, also known as 'Doggie', of Norwood in St James who reportedly headed the feared, 'Stone Crusher Gang', and was on the police most-wanted list, for several years.

He was killed by the St. James police in Clarendon Thursday, during a pre-dawn operation.

For more than five years Murray managed to elude several dragnets set up for him by the St. James police.

They say about seven thirty Thursday morning the police, who were on a special operation along the Clarendon/Manchester border were confronted by criminals traveling in a car.

Following an exchange of gunfire Murray was found dead in the car, reportedly clutching a nine millimeter pistol.

The driver of the vehicle, who is believed to have also been shot, managed to elude the lawmen.

According to commanding officer for St. James, Superintendent Merrick Watson, a diary containing volumes of information regarding the recent incursion of the Security Forces into Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, was taken from him.

The Superintendent read excerpts from it, some of which professed his loyalty to Christopher “Dudus” Coke’s family and his involvement in the shooting during that event.

It details events before, during and after the incursion into Tivoli Gardens and speaks about, “…the invasion of Tivoli Gardens by Babylon, enemy. Gunshot rang out for hours from every corner of Kingston…” The diary read.

Murray, who was killed on his birthday, was fingered in a large number of killings in St. James, including the recent triple killing of two men and a woman on Felicity Road in the capital.

The Bureau of Special Investigations has started a probe into the matter.