Notorious figure Darren Banks is in jail tonight. Police say Banks was behind Friday night’s shooting near the One Stop Shell Gas Station on the boulevard. It is the shooting we first told you about during Friday’s newscast. 27 year old Richard Russell says that at around 6:40 he was standing across from One Stop talking to a friend when a man armed with a 38 pistol approached him from behind and fired three shots. Russell was hit in the buttocks and right shoulder. The shooter allegedly then jumped into a getaway car, a black station wagon which sped in the direction of Daker’s and Coffin Streets.

And though he is not believed to be the gunman, Banks was today charged with conspiracy to commit murder – meaning that policed think he set it up. Bail was denied.

Police are also reportedly looking for police constable Delmar Moguel and Austin Rowland in connection with the shooting. But it is strange that they want Delmar Moguel since they had him this morning. He was in court answering an aggravated assault charge made by Calvin White dating back to May 18th. White claimed that PC Moguel had assaulted him. But today in court, he asked the Magistrate to withdraw the charges. White says it is not because he had been threatened or paid off. He told Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that he and Delmar Moguel had reached an understanding – which was that they would stay away from each other.

And so with the charge withdrawn, Delmar Moguel was free to go but the police were hesitant. The police prosecutor told the Chief Magistrate that CIB investigators wanted to question Moguel about Friday night’s shooting of Richard
Russell. But that wasn’t reason enough to hold Delmar Moguel and so he walked out of the court room a free man.

Delmar Moguel and Austin Rowland, a known associate of Darren Banks, are now being sought. Delmar Moguel is still a police constable but he’s on interdiction. As for shooting victim Russell, he’s recovering at the KHMH and declined an interview.