A 31-year-old father of seven was executed at his Number 78 Village, Corriverton home around 12:30 am yesterday and police sources feel the murder was drug-related.
This newspaper was told that Daniel ‘Danny’ Jones’s forehead was “riddled with bullets” and that the police retrieved “four fired bullets” (shells) at the scene.
Thirteen persons have since been taken into custody at the Springlands Police Station in connection with the crime.
A police source said, “eleven junkies [drug addicts] were found on the premises and we can safely say that it is a drug-block because the men told us that that is where they purchased the drugs.”
However, ‘Danny’s’ father, Simon Jones, while admitting that his son, who operated a snackette, was killed execution-style, said he did not believe it was drug-related. “Even if he was dealing with drugs, I don’t believe that was the reason why he was killed,” he told this newspaper.
Simon Jones also said that robbery was not the motive, as his son’s gold jewellery and his cellular phone, which he had in his hand, were not removed.
Asked whether his son had any problems with anyone, Simon Jones said ‘Danny’ had had a heated argument on Saturday last, with a man who vended and lived nearby.
He told this newspaper that he learned of his son’s death from one of his who said: ‘your son get shoot and it look like he dead’. He said he left immediately went to the scene and he saw his son lying on the ground. “Blood was oozing from his ears and from two bullet holes on his forehead and I stooped over his body and started to weep