Deejay charged with Sterling Castle mob killing
PORTLAND-BASED RECORDING artiste Shacquelle Clarke, who goes by the moniker ‘Quada’, has been charged with murder and arson in relation to the mob killing sparked by outrage over the slaying of Shantae Skyers.
Clarke, 23, was arrested and charged by the Constant Spring police following an interrogation.
The deejay, accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in to the police on Tuesday, January 14. He is the second person arrested for the mob killing.
In December, fellow accused 30-year-old Andrew Breakcliffe, otherwise called ‘Grinch’, of a Sterling Castle Heights address, was also charged with murder and Arson.
Miguel Williams was beaten, then set ablaze, and his house torched, allegedly by Clarke, Breakcliffe, and others for his suspected role in the abduction and murder of Skyers, an eightyear-old girl.
When a search party found her decomposing body in bushes in Sterling Castle Heights last April, residents turned their wrath on Williams, who they said had confessed to the grisly murder of the girl.
Williams, who was reportedly mentally ill, was then attacked and killed.
Even as investigators appear hot on the trail of suspects in the Williams mob killing, they are nowhere near cracking Skyers’ murder. The family, while still hopeful, has said that they feared the case would go cold.
In the meantime, a court date for Clarke has not yet been finalised, and the police say further investigations are ongoing.