Police enter 2015 tackling unsolved murders

Fri, Jan 2nd 2015, 09:44 PM

Police have questioned and released a third suspect in relation to the murder of 17-year-old Darvonya Major, according to head of the Central Detective Unit Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle.
Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit found Major's body on a track road in the back of Dignity Gardens on December 21, five days after her family last saw her alive. She was shot in the head, according to Rolle.
Her family last saw her on the night of December 16 on Bacardi Road leaving her home off McKinney Drive with a man in a white pick-up truck.
According to her family, robbers took the truck and Major.
In another matter, Rolle said the investigation into the December 28 murder of Arlington "Links" Butler, 44, in Mason's Addition is still open.
Butler was released on bail on charges of drug possession with intent to supply and firearm possession in September.
Rolle said a man police questioned in relation to Butler's murder was released yesterday.
He confirmed that police received reports that a man tampered with the crime scene before police arrived by discarding spent cartridges.
Rolle said the man, who was cleared on a murder charge last year, denied those allegations when confronted by police.
He said if the allegations were true, the man did not commit an "arrestable offense."
Butler survived an earlier shooting in Mason's Addition in 2014.
Clarence Coakley Jr., 19, who was also known as "Drops", the man whom police charged with the shooting, was murdered on May 9.
Rolle said police were not certain whether there was a nexus between the two incidents.
He said the investigation into the December 30 murder of Randy McNeil was also open.
McNeil, 29, was shot dead after walking away from a fight at a bar in Matthew Street, Nassau Village, police said.
At the time of his murder, McNeil was on bail for kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.

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