David Cox, the 42 gangster convicted yesterday of murdering Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins has a violent criminal history dating back to his teenage years [see sidebar].He and members of his family have also been implicated in prior gun crimes related to the 42 gang. His cousin, Cervio Cox, was last year convicted of being an accomplice to a gun attack on Mr Rawlins’ family on Court Street in May 2009, and jailed for seven years.On that occasion, 16-year-old Parkside associate Jdun Thompson and C&R Discount Store workers Raymond Burgess Jr and his father Raymond Sr were injured by an unknown gunman.Mr Burgess Sr is Mr Rawlins’ father and Mr Burgess Jr is his brother. Police gang expert Sergeant Alexander Rollin described Cervio Cox, now 27, during his trial as an associate of the 42 gang. His car was used during the gun attack and he admitted loaning it to gangsters on 42nd Street, aka St Monica’s Road, that morning.Prosecutor Robert Welling alleged that Cervio Cox was the getaway driver in the triple shooting. Mr Welling said he got involved in the crime in retaliation for the gun murder on St. Monica’s Road the day before of his friend Kenwandee (Wheels) Robinson.Cervio Cox’s cousin, Mikey Adams, was seriously injured in that same incident.According to Sgt Rollin’s evidence, Mr Robinson and Mr Adams were members of 42.David Cox told police during interviews over the Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins murder that Kenwandee (Wheels) Robinson was a good friend of his too.Defence lawyer Jerome Lynch QC suggested it was Cervio Cox’s cousin Daniel Cox, now 29, and the youngest of David Cox’s three brothers, who was the getaway driver.Cervio Cox described Daniel Cox as “that gangster type” during his evidence, and Sgt Rollin described him as a 42 member.David Cox was in prison at the time of the May 2009 triple shooting and was never implicated in the crime, prosecutor Cindy Clarke stated during the Rawlins murder trial. The culprit responsible for pulling the trigger on Mr Rawlins’ father and brother has not been brought to justice.David Cox’s name has also been linked to other gun attacks during previous Supreme Court trials. He was named by Sgt Rollin as a member of the 42 gang during the trial of a Middletown gang member named Antonio Myers earlier this year.According to witnesses in the Myers trial, Cox was involved in a drink-throwing altercation with the mother of a Middletown gang member at the Devonshire Recreation Club in the early hours of December 5 2009.According to Sgt Rollin, the gangs 42 and Middletown are enemies locked in deadly warfare, with Middletown being an offshoot of the Parkside gang.Just an hour-and-a-half after the altercation at Devonshire Rec, Kumi Harford, a high-ranking member of 42 according to Sgt Rollin, was shot dead on St Monica’s Road. Prosecutor Rory Field said there was a direct link between the drink-throwing involving David Cox and the Middletown mother, and the murder of Mr Harford. He suggested Mr Myers, a self-confessed member of the Middletown gang, exacted payback against 42 member Mr Harford due to the insult meted out to Middletown by Cox.During his police interview over the Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins murder, Cox described Kumi Harford as one of several friends he’d lost to gun violence.The Myers trial also heard that a .40 calibre semi-automatic gun used to kill Mr Harford was also used in the murders of Cox’s friends Kenwandee Robinson and Perry Puckerin and used to shoot at his brother Daniel Cox in February 2009.David Cox was arrested over the murder of alleged Parkside and Middletown associate Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins the morning it happened on August 9 2010, having turned himself in to Hamilton Police Station.A judge imposed a news blackout when he was taken to Supreme Court on August 12 2010. On that date, prosecutor Cindy Clarke applied under recent amendments to the Firearms Act for police to be able to hold him in custody longer.The amendments allow Police to detain gun suspects for up to a month without charge so they can carry on gathering evidence.They’d only had three days to charge or release suspects before the law was changed, and are believed to have used their new powers for the first time in the Cox case. Cox was brought to court with a blanket over his head amid tight security. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons granted an extension to police to carry on holding him in custody.She also issued an injunction preventing the media from publishing anything likely to identify him until such time as he may be charged before the courts with an offence. That happened when Cox was brought to Hamilton Magistrates’ Court 13 days later on August 25 2010 and charged with the crimes for which he was convicted yesterday; the premeditated murder of Mr Rawlins and using a gun to commit murder.