'I knew something was wrong' - Body of man found stuffed in car hours after he went missing

COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, September 19, 2008



A despondent Keisha Walker (left) is consoled by a female friend outside Madden's Funeral Home in Kingston after seeing the lifeless body of her son's father sprawled on a table inside the morgue. (Photo: Michael Gordon)

KEISHA Walker's ear-splitting cries for 'Jiggy' outside Madden's Funeral Home in Kingston Tuesday was testimony to her overwhelming grief.

The woman's night-long wait for Devon Dacres, 29 - also called 'Jiggy', the father of her two-year-old son - ended shortly before 7:00 am when his bullet-riddled body was found in the trunk of a grey Honda motor car near the Horizon Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road.

Dacres, a resident of nearby Wellington Road in Whitfield Town, had been missing since 10:00 pm on Monday, when he left home after receiving a telephone call, Walker said.

"I knew something was wrong, I just knew it. Devon don't sleep out and from I don't see him come in I just knew that something happened to him," Walker cried as she buried her face on the shoulder of a female friend.

"From him carry some food for me last night, him leave out and I don't hear from him again. Is this morning I come see him in here," added the woman, who sneaked glances at the building where Dacres' corpse lay openly on a table.

Walker said that Dacres had rented the motor car on Sunday and that according to a male friend, he left home after receiving a telephone call from the owner that he should return it. That was the last time anyone saw him alive.

Tuesday afternoon, Deputy Superintendent Hugh Bish said that the police had not yet established a motive for the killing as, "the investigation into the incident was still in its early stages".

"We have no leads nor motive as it relates to that murder. At the moment, it appears that he might have been killed and then placed in the trunk of the car and then dumped on Spanish Town Road, that is all that I can say right now," said Bish, adding that the motor car which was seized by the police will be examined for clues.

Meanwhile, homicide detectives in the St Andrew South Police Division were also probing a murder of an unidentified man on East Guango Crescent in Olympic Gardens Tuesday.
According to the cops, shortly after 6:00 am, residents found the body in a pool of blood after they heard explosions.

Inspection of the body, believed to be about 50-years-old, and which was clad in a pair of blue jeans pants and a multi-coloured shirt, revealed multiple gunshot wounds.