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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Businessman murdered in La Horquetta

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A 36-year-old busi­ness­man was gunned down in La Hor­quet­ta yes­ter­day af­ter­noon in what po­lice are de­scrib­ing as a gang- re­lat­ed killing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports Haniel Lon­don, of De Fre­itas Boule­vard, the own­er of Yardie's Min­i­Mart was at LH Whole­sales at Mar­jorie Pad­more Av­enue, Phase 2, re-sup­ply­ing his busi­ness when he was killed.

Po­lice said Lon­don while wait­ing on the pro­pri­etor to re­turn a gun­shot was heard around 12,45 pm and he was found face down on the ground. His death took the mur­der toll to 409 for the year.

Po­lice said Lon­don was ar­rest­ed last month for lar­ce­ny of a car and was not sure whether that had any­thing to do with his death.

They added that Lon­don was al­so close­ly ac­quaint­ed with mur­dered busi­ness­man and crim­i­nal mas­ter­mind Sel­wyn "Robo­cop" Alex­is and this con­nec­tion could al­so be a mo­tive for his death.

Alex­is, and his friend, Kevin Es­cayg, of San Juan, were shot sev­er­al times as a group of gun­men am­bushed them at Alex­is' car­wash at Free­dom Street around 4.30 pm on Ju­ly 17. Es­cayg's son, Kichard Scott, five, was shot in the ab­domen in the in­ci­dent.

Thomas "Hamza" Sharpe be­lieved to be Alex­is's and Es­cayg's killer was him­self killed dur­ing the in­ci­dent.


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