The police believe last night’s murder of Prince Lodge, 30 at Wild Street in Dunkirk, was gang related. The man, who lived on the neighbouring Maiden Street, was reportedly found with several bullet wounds in a yard shortly before 10 p.m. According to the police, a magazine loaded with 9 millimetre cartridges was found next to his body. The police say Lodge was released from prison after serving a gun related sentence sometime last year. However, they say he was not a person of interest at the time of his death.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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