MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Police here say they are determined to dismantle a network of criminals, particularly those involved in the robbery of bars, during wh ich poker boxes are mainly targeted. This follows Saturday’s triple fatal shooting by cops on Caledonia Road in Mandeville, involving three suspects with connections to criminals in neighbouring parishes who police said targeted bars across Manchester. “The group that was involved in the shoot-out, we have been tracking them for some time and, based on intelligence, we even recovered stolen items, including poker box parts at three premises two Fridays ago, tied to these three people,” a police source said.
Police named those fatally shot as Lester Morris, Travis Baker and Sutania Boothe, otherwise called Chun Chun. Two firearms were reportedly seized during Saturday’s alleged shoot-out. Police said about 4:00 pm they were alerted to a robbery spree and subsequently intercepted a vehicle near Horseshoe Curve.
A highly placed police source said the occupants of the intercepted vehicle opened fire on cops, who returned gunfire. A shoot-out ensued resulting in a prolonged stand-off. Boothe, Morris and Baker, according to the police, were taken from the intercepted vehicle and rushed to hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
The incident happened in proximity of last Saturday’s double murder in which nursing student Deenekia Pounall and Sadefa Henry were gunned down in a taxi by a gunman posing as a passenger. Baker and Morris were well known to the police, having both been previously arrested and charged for several offences, including praedial larceny and robbery. Police described Baker as a third-generation thief in February 2024, when he was arrested a week before his father, Neville, was detained.
At that time, the younger Baker was among three men arrested and charged with praedial larceny offences following a high-speed chase in Newport, Manchester. A ram goat was recovered from the trunk of a Toyota Axio in which Baker was travelling. The elder Baker was subsequently arrested when police caught him and two other men with more than 600 pounds of stolen carrots and Irish potatoes in Kingsland near Mandeville.
A year later, on March 2, 2025, Neville Baker was gunned down in his car at the entrance to the community of Hatfield in Manchester. He had also previously served prison time for…
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