The Tribune

By NICO SCAVELLA

Tribune Staff Reporter

nscavella@tribunemedia.net

FOUR men between the ages of 25 and 33 are behind several of the country’s most recent murders, including that of a man who was attending a party in a Haitian village on Cowpen Road, police have alleged.

Two 25-year-olds Ricardo Mitchell and Keno McKenzie; 28-year-old Mario Brown, and 33-year-old Walleck Medurerk were each arraigned yesterday before Magistrate Kara Turnquest-Deveaux over four separate murders which took place between February 9 and 10.

Medurerk, police allege, was one of the two armed men who emerged from bushes and shot and killed 54-year-old Exavier Presentus and attempted to kill Sidney St Arnold on February 9 as they mingled among a group of Haitian nationals hosting a social event at the Haitian village.

Medurerk is further alleged to have robbed St Arnold at gunpoint of a Samsung cellphone worth $220 and a brown leather wallet worth $50.

The Homestead Street native returns to court on April 12 for service of a voluntary bill of indictment (VBI). He was remanded into police custody until then.

Meanwhile, Mitchell and McKenzie, of Carmichael Road and Miami Street respectively, were both charged with murdering 54-year-old Ferdinand Agenor as well as another man, Daniel Sterling, on February 10 in the Englerston area.

Sterling and Agenor were killed roughly an hour apart, and just a few streets apart. Sterling was killed by a male armed with a firearm while sitting in front of a business establishment on Washington Street and Balfour Avenue at around 9am.

Then at 10am Agenor was shot and killed by a gunman while standing in front of a business establishment on Robinson Road and Miami Street.

Mitchell and McKenzie were further charged with attempting to murder Anwar Smith at a bar on Miami Street on February 3.

McKenzie was further charged with causing grievous harm to Joel Bullard on October 28, while Mitchell was charged with causing grievous harm to Terrance Hutchinson on May 13, 2018.

They both plead not guilty to the grievous harm charges and will return to court on April 16 for trial.

Brown, meanwhile, was accused of murdering Jamaal Kemp on February 10 while at the Potter’s Cay Dock.

However, Brown’s attorney Krysta Mason-Smith indicated to the court that a video exists which shows that he was not present at the location in question when Kemp was murdered, and thus asked the police investigators to look into the matter. She said if the video in fact shows that Brown was at a “completely different location”, then he shouldn’t be charged before the courts.

Brown returns to court on April 12 for service of a VBI.