Murder victim's truck searched
(Mackie) Douglas was to pick up at a New Jersey port, The Royal Gazette has learned.
New York City Det. Mike Pisano said the truck, belonging to a Bermudian friend of Mr. Douglas', was searched for contraband such as drugs and cash.
But nothing was found in the search, which was ordered as a result of Police following up every possible angle.
"We explore everything until we come up with something,'' he said. "We don't give up around here.'' The truck had been shipped from Bermuda to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey for a Ford recall.
Mr. Douglas was to pick up the truck last Thursday and drive it to Ford in Long Island. He was then to arrange shipment of the truck back to Bermuda.
Mr. Douglas never made it to Port Elizabeth. He was brutally shot hours after arriving in New Jersey on March 3.
Det. Pisano said he had since learned Mr. Douglas had been shot four times -- not three -- at close range, twice in the head and twice in the stomach.
Mr. Douglas, a top marine mechanic, was found face down in the backseat of his rental car in the Harlem area last Thursday morning. His wallet, car keys and passport were missing.
Det. Pisano has called the murder case "unusual''. He said it did not fit the pattern of a typical robbery nor a "car-jacking''. And it did not make sense that the body was found in the backseat of the car.
Det. Pisano believes the 38-year-old was shot and robbed somewhere in New Jersey where his hotel was and then dumped in Harlem.
"It's been done before,'' he said.