Jamaica is deploying soldiers to two neighborhoods where gang violence has driven roughly 200 residents from their homes.Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the government will continue to step up police and military operations in the Gravel Heights and Tredegar Park neighborhoods near the capital, Kingston.Monsignor Richard Albert says an unknown number of soldiers arrived Saturday and occupied some of the roughly 100 abandoned homes.Residents of both neighborhoods had fled with their belongings in early December, blaming clashes between the One Order and Clansman gangs.Police have arrested more than 100 people and scores of residents have already returned.Gang takeovers of poor Jamaican communities are fairly common.
''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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