A man iden­ti­fied as a cousin of re­put­ed gang leader Vaughn ‘Sand­man’ Mieres was shot and killed in Mara­cas/St Joseph yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Dil­lon ‘Mis­sion’ Mieres was shot dead by gun­men who am­bushed a white Toy­ota sedan he was dri­ving in Lle­un­go Vil­lage. His wife, Mary Reyes, who was seat­ed in the front seat, was shot mul­ti­ple times and is ward­ed the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Po­lice said the gun­men crashed a white Nis­san wag­on in­to the cou­ple’s car and then opened fire on them, killing Mieres on the spot. They aban­doned the car on the scene and fled in­to near­by bush­es.

On Ju­ly 25, Sand­man, his wife Ali­ka “Let­ty” De­here and two of his body­guards, Kadir Joseph and Nigel ‘Blood’ Octin, were mur­dered at his Las Cuevas home.

Po­lice said high pow­ered ri­fles were used to car­ry out the killings and the mur­der­ers were said to have set their ve­hi­cles on fire and es­caped by sea af­ter the act was done.

A week lat­er, on Au­gust 2, Durell ‘Shorto’ Ray­mond was charged with the four mur­ders.

On Au­gust 13, in what po­lice de­scribed as a reprisal for Sand­man’s mur­der, a man iden­ti­fied as Shaquille “Pa­pa” Eu­gene was shot dead.