THE Portmore police have reported that Okeelie Brown, one of two men killed last Monday during a shoot-out with lawmen on Winona Drive, Garveymeade, was a gang member charged in 2010 with the double murder of former Waterford High School goalkeeper, Okeeffee Lewis, and his stepfather, Leonard Hamilton.

The police claim Brown and another man, Dadrian Davis, were killed when the lawmen went in search of them after receiving information that they had pulled weapons on a visitor to the Garveymeade community.

Brown was also reportedly wanted by the police for the shooting of a rival gang member, 'Headless', earlier this month.

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"A report was made to the police that men had accosted the visitor, enquiring about his reasons for being in the area. Based on information, a special team went in search of the men. They were spotted and engaged the police in a shoot-out," a police source told THE STAR.

Two firearms, a .38 pistol, with two rounds of ammunition, and .45 colt pistol, were seized during the shoot-out.

Brown, the police claimed, was second in command of the notorious Umbrella gang, said to be responsible for 31 murders in the Newlands area and elsewhere in Portmore from 2006 to 2011.

He, however, had fallen out of favour with the outfit's incarcerated leader and left to form his own gang, operating out of Garveymeade.

Brown and four other members of the Umbrella gang were charged with the November 16, 2010, double murder of Lewis and Hamilton in Newlands, which plunged Waterford High into mourning on the eve of the Manning Cup semi-finals.