Rhon­dor Dowlat

Hours af­ter his home was al­leged­ly shot up by mem­bers of the Un­ruly Isis gang, po­lice ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old close male rel­a­tive of mur­dered gang leader Sel­wyn “Robo­cop” Alex­is.

How­ev­er, fam­i­ly mem­bers strong­ly be­lieve that po­lice of­fi­cers are ei­ther be­ing mis­led or in­ten­tion­al­ly tar­get­ing the Alex­is fam­i­ly.

On Wednes­day, the fam­i­ly claimed, po­lice of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force went to a house at Nim­blette Street, En­ter­prise, where they de­tained Alex­is’ rel­a­tive for ques­tion­ing. Rel­a­tives who were present, in­clud­ing the man’s moth­er, at­tempt­ed to speak with the po­lice of­fi­cers but to no avail.

The man was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al shoot­ings in the area and claims that Un­ruly Isis mem­bers are be­ing tar­get­ed by four men, in­clud­ing Alex­is’ close male rel­a­tive.

“I was told by the po­lice that they have four names and I know that one of them in prison so how the po­lice could say he and three oth­ers were re­cent­ly in­volved in a shoot­ing in En­ter­prise, that peo­ple saw them on the road. Some­thing not adding up and the po­lice did not make the prop­er checks,” the rel­a­tive said.

Rel­a­tives said at the time of the al­leged shoot­ing, CCTV footage shows the man who was ar­rest­ed was at home. "Again, why the po­lice did not look at all the CCTV footage that we have to prove oth­er­wise?

Alex­is' rel­a­tives in­tend to seek a meet­ing with Head of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty David West on what they called "con­stant po­lice ha­rass­ment." They will al­so hand over a list of names of of­fi­cers to the PCA.

On Feb­ru­ary 10, a white SUV oc­cu­pied by four of Alex­is’ chil­dren be­tween the ages of 21 and two was shot at along the Old South­ern Main Road. No one was hurt.

Robo­cop was killed in 2016. Two of his broth­ers were al­so killed—one in 2016 and the oth­er in 2017.

Ef­forts to reach ASP Wayne Mys­tar for com­ment were un­suc­cess­ful since he did not an­swer his phone. He al­so did not re­spond to a what­sapp mes­sage.