Detectives may be closing in on killers of father-to-be

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Detectives could soon close the net on the killers of father-to-be Jahmiko LeShore.

Police will say little about their inquiry into the murder of the 26-year-old on March 1 this year other than it is a “bit more operationally sensitive” than other cases.

Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Pedro, who is leading the investigation, told The Royal Gazette he was unwilling to make public any information about the suspected motive for the slaying.

“I don’t think I need to put that out in the public domain,” he said. “What we’ll do is say we do have a working hypothesis which the investigating team are working on but we are not going to share that.”

The senior officer confirmed that the weapon used to kill Mr LeShore, of Devon Springs Lane, Devonshire, was a .40 calibre semi-automatic gun previously used by the Parkside gang.

Ballistics evidence given in Supreme Court has revealed that the weapon was used to murder Shane Minors on December 17, 2009 and has been involved in a string of other shootings.

The same court hearing was told by Sergeant Alex Rollin on June 28 this year that Mr LeShore was known to him as a member of 42, Parkside’s arch rivals.

Mr LeShore’s family insist that though he grew up and had many friends in the St Monica’s Road area, which is known as 42’s stronghold, he wasn’t a gangster.

Relatives have described his murder as “ruthless, heartless and senseless” and carried out by “evil thugs”.

A source told this newspaper that Mr LeShore, whose nicknames were Miko and Lushis, looked up to leading 42 member Kumi Harford as a kind of mentor.

Mr Harford was fatally shot on December 5, 2009 and Mr LeShore helped set up a Facebook page in his memory, posting the words: “RIP can’t even put nuffin in words your [sic] my road dog 4 life.”

Mr LeShore’s older brother Jahkeo, 29, is understood to have close ties with 42 and to be known to police.

On the evening of his murder, Jahmiko LeShore arrived on his motorcycle at the home of his heavily pregnant girlfriend Tashae Brown on Boundary Crescent, Devonshire, at about 8.30pm.

Det Ch Insp Pedro said: “Mr LeShore’s girlfriend and her mother arrived home in their private car just a few minutes before him.

“Mr LeShore followed on his motorcycle. He parked it outside the front of the residence and, as he was doing so, he was ambushed by what we believe was a single gunman on foot who fired at Mr LeShore three times, killing him.”

The victim never got to meet his son Kar’da, who was born just a couple of weeks after his death.

Det Ch Insp Pedro said he hoped that fact might prompt anyone with information about the murder to call police.

He said Boundary Crescent was in a densely populated neighbourhood and the shooter may have been seen by many people.

“We believe that the shooter himself was wearing a hooded sweat top of some kind over his head and had on long trousers and either light coloured sneakers or boots. We believe that he came onto the scene on foot but may have left on a motorcycle from the area.

“We believe that person exited Boundary Crescent onto Hermitage Road on a motorcycle.”

Det Ch Insp Pedro said his team needed more details about the bike the shooter could have escaped on.

“We are interested in anyone who may have seen a motorcycle parked up in the area that looked out of place or who saw a male on foot in the area who may have been loitering or seen to be loitering or looked otherwise out of place.”

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of premeditated murder and two women on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. All were released on bail pending further inquiries and no one has been charged to date.

l Part ten of our series on Bermuda’s unsolved gang murders will appear in The Royal Gazette on Monday, October 31, when we’ll focus on the March 2011 shooting of Randy Robinson.

We want to speak to anyone affected by the shootings who has yet to see justice done. If you’d like to share your story, call senior reporter Sam Strangeways on 278-0155 or e-mail sstrangeways[AT]royalgazette.bm.

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