Convicted killer David Jahwell Cox will spend at least 38 years behind bars for the gun murder of Raymond Troy (Yankee) Rawlins.Cox was whisked away by armed police from the Supreme Court, moments after his life sentence was delivered by Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves.Justice Greaves called the August 9 shooting of Mr Rawlins, who was gunned down as he entered a nightclub, “an arrogant, thoughtless, vengeful assassination of a citizen by another, in the presence of ‘John Citizen’, with total disregard or respect for members of the community”.Noting that it was committed “in the middle of the night in a public establishment”, Justice Greaves said the evidence shows that Cox, armed with a 9mm pistol, along with another man armed with a revolver, fired a total of 16 shots into Mr Rawlins.“The firearm used by Mr Cox has not been recovered. The other assailant has not been apprehended,” he added.Justice Greaves also pointed out that the guns had been used in “a number of other assaults some of which resulted in death”.He continued: “No assistance has come forward from the defendant, and no remorse exhibited whatsoever.”A jury earlier this month unanimously declared Cox guilty of murder, as well as using a firearm to commit the act. On that occasion, Cox taunted his victim’s family members as he was led from the building.This time, an impassive Cox shook his head and replied “Nothing” when invited to speak before sentencing.The 31-year-old received life imprisonment for premeditated murder, with a minimum of 38 years before he is eligible to be considered for parole.For using a firearm which Justice Greaves called the “apex” of aggravating factors in the killing Cox was given ten years, to be served concurrently.The murder of Mr Rawlins, 47, who in victim impact statements was said to be the father of ten children, was called “a revenge, tit-for-tat attack, motivated by the war between two gangs”.Justice Greaves added: “Two gangs who have terrorised this community for some time, and have driven it from the garden of paradise to a handbasket bound for hell.”Cox has been named by police as a member of the 42 gang, arch-rivals of the Parkside gang, in whose territory the killing took place.The killing of Mr Rawlins was said in court to be in retaliation for a non-fatal shooting of a 42 gang member earlier that evening. Cox was said to have proceeded eastward to a location where he armed himself before returning to the city.In his summary, Justice Greaves gave a grisly catalogue of the shooting, which included five shots to the victim’s head.Cox, from Club Road in Smith’s, turned himself in to police shortly after the killing of Mr Rawlins, but a combination of forensic evidence and an eyewitness’ testimony was ultimately used to bring him to justice.In imposing the sentence, Justice Greaves called it “the kind of case that this community is begging that a stop be put to”.Responding to the news, 28-year-old Tuquilah Carter, a daughter of Mr Rawlins who lives in New Jersey, said: “I’m happy and I’m not happy. It doesn’t help. It’s not going to bring my father back. All we’ve got is memories.”She added: “I’m the oldest child. I take it hard, but the others will take it harder than me.”She kept in regular contact with her father, and said she would miss his laugh.Saying that she hoped Cox’s accomplice would also be caught, Ms Carter spoke of wishing “it would all be over so my father can rest”.“They should find everybody who was involved in this. To this day I want to know why. But I guess I’ll never know.”She called Cox “a monster” and said: “You can tell he doesn’t care. Now he has to sit in jail.”Ms Carter said she wished she could be in Bermuda on the anniversary of her father’s killing. “I will never forget that day,” she said. “But my friends and my boyfriend are keeping me strong. It will be all right. But I won’t really know until that day.”