QUOTE(Jme3584 @ Aug 1 2007, 10:59 AM)

Good Morning...
Congrats on the approval yesterday

Hope everyone is doing good...
We got some bad news out of JA yesterday and I am just asking for some prayers. Andre's family lives in the Bushy Park Scheme in May Pen. It is a pretty tight community and everyone knows everyone. Anyways Andre's barber is right down the road from his families house and he has been good friends with his barber Oliver since Highschool. Well yesterday Oliver was trimming an off duty cop (can't remember his name now) that Andre also grew up with and would play ball with every night back in JA. Well yesterday afternoon 2 thugs came to rob Oliver's shop and held them both at gunpoint. Oliver gave them all his money and some supplies and such and as they were leaving they noticed that the guy in the chair had a gun as he was a cop and they shot him right there in the chair in the stomach and took off. Well the cop kind slouched out of the chair and started crawling towards the door and the guys who were running off noticed that he had come to the doorway so they turned back and shot him 6 more times and stole the gun. All this happened right at Oliver's feet at the steps of his barbershop. He is devasted and scared out of his mind. He is petrified that they will come back for him or his kids because he could ID them and they murdered a cop. Which we all know is pretty controversial in JA or anywhere for that matter. So Andre is super upset for his friend Oliver and also the cop as they were friends but he is even more concerned for his family as they lived only a block or two away. So if you could keep Andre, Oliver and all the families involved in your prayers that would be much appreciated. Oliver has a little child that he takes care of solely as his wife is in the US so he is under a lot of stress especially now that he is out all that money. Anyways thanks for anything you can send our way.
Jamie

Oh and also...I don't have internet access at home anymore and limited access at work so for those of you who have emailed me and I haven't gotten back to you...sorry

OMG -- That is terrible. I will certainly keep them in my prayers.
I just can't understand, if you get what you want, why you have to kill.
I remember 2 separate incidents when 2 gentlemen (1 a photographer for Jamaica Observer, the other a JDF soldier) were traveling on the public transportation and gunmen came on the bus. After they robbed everyone, they looked at these guys and said that they looked like cops and killed them on the bus. All you have to do to look like police is to be well-groomed. I remember when I was in Portmore with my husband after the first incident, this guy was begging $$ and then looked at my husband and said he looked like a police officer. My heart was in my throat because I would hate to lose my husband in such a manner.
My prayers go out for the community and the families affected.