An Ex-Associate Of Dancehall Artist Vybz Kartel Killed In St Catherine Drive By

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Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel

A man known to be the former associate of Vybz Kartel, businessman Jamie Ridley was shot during a drive by this morning in the Portmore, St. Catherine parish of Jamaica.

Ridley’s girlfriend “Poochie”, a well known entertainment personality was also shot in ambush.

The incident happened during a fish fry held by Portmore dance personality, Diamond.

The only person killed in the drive by was the 34-year-old businessman Jamie Ridley.

According to local news reports, the incident occurred at about 1:30 am, when a Toyota Corolla pulled up, occupied by an unknown number of gunmen, and allegedly opened gunfire hitting Ridley and two others.

An off duty officer was at the scene, but the shooters were still able to escape.

Ridley’s girlfriend, “Poochie” was taken to hospital.

As of now, there has been no known motive for the shooting.

Stay tuned to The Pen Hustle

WATCH: Tour Of The Grandees In Nutty Blocc Compton Crip Neighborhood

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Compton, CA – Bay Locc (aka Geechi Gotti) and Baby Hacc from Nutty Blocc Compton Crips talks about growing up in Compton, going to elementary school, and hanging out in the Grandees, a section of Nutty Blocc area located near 165th and 166th streets. They give us a tour of the Grandees, which historically is the location for one of the first splinter Crips sets from the original three Westside, Eastside and Compton Crips of the early 1970s.

Boys Don’t Cry – Is It Time We Start Talking About Our Murdered And Missing Indigenous Men?

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Grace Lafond-Barr’s son, brother, and half brother were all murdered in a 12-year span. Her son, Jaron Tyler Jahnke, was shot in the stomach in Saskatoon in a case of mistaken identity. Indigenous people are seven times more likely than non-aboriginal people to be a victim of homicide.

By Jeremy Warren | The StarPhoenix

Indigenous men are more likely to be murdered than anyone else in Canada – possibly more than 2,000 in a 30-year period.

Grace Lafond-Barr believes healing starts in the home, so she moved her family to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation from Saskatoon two years ago to escape the city where murder took away her two brothers and a son.

She hopes the distance between the city and her grandkids will mean a quieter life without the spectre of violence and vice following them as they grow into young men. Lafond-Barr has seen enough of that: in…

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