Stephan Castillo Killed Due to Gang Affiliation, but Was Not Involved in Recent Murders

Chester Williams

Stephan Castillo was murdered on Thursday and today police say that they have one person in custody and are looking for several others. Officers were also able to retrieve the gun they believed was used in the deadly shooting. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the killers pounced on Castillo simply because he was in the wrong neighborhood while trying to make his living.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“Police were in the area and police pursued a vehicle and during the pursuit a firearm was thrown from the vehicle which the police recovered – it was a nine millimeter pistol believed to be the weapon of choice in committing the murder. Police later intercepted the vehicle and inside was Orel Leslie. He is currently in police custody and we are looking for five other persons who we believe were also inside the vehicle with him and those persons are currently being treated as the suspects in that particular murder.   The investigators are going to do what needs to be done to see if we can tie the evidence together with a view to levy charges against him but the very least we suspect he should be charged with the firearm offence while we do the investigation of the murder.  He was indeed working outside his zone and for the most part you see a young man trying to make an honest living working – you should never go and target a man who is trying to make an honest living. If it were that they had gone after the person who did the killing that would have been a different story – yes the young man may be affiliated but he wasn’t the one involved in the previous murder s so why go after him? So it goes to show the extent to which some of these young men would go to just prove themselves and we have to do something about it.”