Sascha Wil­son

A hit from Re­mand Yard, Gold­en Grove Prison, and a drug deal gone sour are two the­o­ries po­lice are work­ing on in Mon­day's killing of An­thon "Jim" Jones, sources said. Jones, 25, of St James Street, Mara­bel­la, was shot at close range around 11 am in front of Bright Ideas at Pamela's Mall, Mara­bel­la.

On im­pact the bul­lets blew his face and head apart. Moth­er of four, San­dra Hen­ry, 48, who was head­ing to­wards the store al­so was fa­tal­ly struck by the bul­lets. Both of them died on the spot.

Eye­wit­ness­es said four men were in­volved in the shoot­ing. Po­lice said the get­away van-a white SUV-used by the gun­men was found aban­doned in Re­form Vil­lage, Williamsville, around 8.30 pm on Mon­day. The hit on Jones' life might have come from in­mates in the Re­mand Yard where he had spent three months await­ing bail on arms and am­mu­ni­tion charges, sources said. Po­lice re­ceived in­for­ma­tion he was in­volved in a stab­bing in­ci­dent with oth­er in­mates, sources said. It was on­ly last week that a judge grant­ed him $175,000 bail. He had reap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates' Court mo­ments be­fore close to 24 bul­lets were pumped in­to his body.

Po­lice be­lieve the gun­men had fol­lowed him from the cour­t­house. An­oth­er the­o­ry was that his killing was as a re­sult of a drug deal gone sour, sources said. The in­for­ma­tion reach­ing po­lice was that Jones had tak­en a large quan­ti­ty of co­caine from a drug deal­er in Port-of- Spain. In­ves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect that last week Thurs­day's dou­ble mur­ders of Shel­don Dan­drade, 32, and Ezekiel Joseph, 30, at St James Street, Mara­bel­la, al­so were car­ried out by Jones' ex­e­cu­tion­ers. Po­lice be­lieve Jones was the tar­get of that shoot­ing and like Hen­ry the two men were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.