Jensen La Vende

Three men, ages 18, 19 and 20, all from the Cara­po area, have been ar­rest­ed and are as­sist­ing po­lice in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of fel­low Cara­po res­i­dent James Grander­son who was gunned down on Wednes­day.

The sus­pects were held by mem­bers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Se­nior Supt David Abra­ham. Two were ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter the mur­der and the third man was held on Thurs­day. Grander­son, of Pe­ters Av­enue, Cara­po, was killed around 7 am af­ter the gun­men en­tered his home and start­ed shoot­ing at him.An au­top­sy showed he had been shot five times, three times in the head at close range.

The re­port sug­gest­ed that Grander­son was first struck in the back and col­lapsed as he tried to climb a chain link fence. While he lay on the ground the gun­men ap­proached and shot him four more times.Mean­while, the man of African de­scent who was found dead in an aban­doned lot at Mis­sion Road, San Juan, is yet to be iden­ti­fied.The man, who was found wear­ing a T-shirt with an Amer­i­can flag and a pair of blue jeans, had a Rasta­far­i­an hair­style.

Po­lice be­lieved he was shot in the head but an au­top­sy re­vealed he died from a sin­gle stab wound to the neck. Af­ter be­ing stabbed, he fell face first, hit­ting his head when he land­ed, which led crime scene ex­perts to be­lieve he was shot.