Jamaican criminal gangs are very clan-like in their organization, and in the U.S. they like to exaggerate their ethnic differences.
The Jamaican gangs were known for their savagery in taking territory and defending it.
The victim had been caught stealing from the Jamaican crack-peddling gang that controls the vicinity.
The Shower Posse is a Jamaican gang which is involved with drug and arms smuggling.
The film Predator 2 also featured a powerful Jamaican gang with a leader named King Willie.
The first Jamaican gangs, the officials said, were identified in Brooklyn in the 1970's.
The Cat Posse, a Jamaican gang, set up headquarters in an apartment fronting on the park.
Two weeks ago three people were killed and one was wounded in Bridgeport in what the police there suspect was warfare between Jamaican gangs.
Johnny Marcone's thugs were shooting it out with some of the Jamaican gang that was trying to muscle in on the territory back then.
Between 1980 and 1985, the Shower Posse and other Jamaican gangs were linked to at least 1,500 murders along America's east coast.