Man suspected of killing ‘Jaggy D’ shot dead

WESTERN BUREAU:

A man believed to have been the mastermind behind Tuesday’s murder of deejay Roger ‘Jaggy D’ Walker, a police source told The Gleaner, was shot and killed in a gunfight with the Hanover police early Friday morning.

The deceased man, who was of Bamboo address on the outskirts of Hopewell, where Walker was killed, was identified by relatives as 30-year-old Romaine ‘CJ’ Humphrey.

According to residents, a team of police office entered the community shortly before daybreak on Friday, and shortly after, they heard gunshots. They later learned that Humphrey was killed.

“After Jaggy D dead, we hear people a call CJ name, but mi see him the day after and he wasn’t hiding or anything, so I don’t know what to say about that,” a resident of Bamboo told The Gleaner yesterday. “He is dead so we will never hear fi him side of the story.”

According to eyewitness report, the 57-year-old Walker, who grew up in Hopewell but was based in Kingston, was with friends at a popular hangout spot when an armed man came up behind him and shot him dead on the spot.

The killing sparked outrage across western Jamaica and in the music community as Walker was among a group of promising deejays who surged to prominence on the sound system circuit in western Jamaica in the late 1980s.

adrian.frater@gleanerjm.com