Smith was denied bail and remanded to the Hattieville Prison until September 14.
Smith?s arrest was made within minutes of the shooting, which occurred at about 12:17 early Tuesday morning, August 8. As many as 6 shots were sprayed through Taylor?s Alley, which woke the residents, who had already gone to bed.
Dead at the end of the shooting was Logan, who, police say, was found lying on the ground, shot four times ? in the left leg, the upper left side of the chest, the right side of the face and the left side of the neck, said police.
He was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital by BERT personnel, but died while undergoing treatment at 1:05 a.m., less than an hour after being shot.
But what helped police to make a quick arrest was the fact that Logan, before being rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), was able to tell police who was the alleged gunman ? a man known to him as ?Harry.?
What was puzzling, however, is that according to a police report, Logan?s shooter was seen talking to him shortly after the shooting.
A police report said, ?At the scene, police saw a man coming through the alley from the entrance of Baghdad Street. The man, identified as Smith, stooped down beside Logan. Logan pulled up and tried to hold on to Smith, said the police.?
According to the police, Smith then moved away. Police then asked Logan if he knew who shot him. Logan replied that it was ?Harry?, who had shot him, said the police report. The police then asked him if it was the same person who was seen stooping down next to him. According to police, Logan said, ?Yes,? and he pointed in the direction of Smith, who was standing some 10 yards away.
Smith was immediately arrested. A street source told Amandala, however, that Smith was not the one who shot Logan, that he had approached Logan after the shooting, but we could not confirm the information.
According to ASP Chester Williams, they are not certain of the motive, but believe that it was drug-related in some way. Police?s initial investigation has revealed that Logan was walking through the alley when he met his attacker.
Taylor?s Alley is an area that Logan was known to visit. He didn?t live anywhere near, but had many friends who lived in the alley. Logan was known as a handyman, and would carry bags of clothes back and forth for the vendors of an area on Orange Street known as ?Little Melchor,? selling clothing and other items on Cemetery Road.
One neighbor with whom we spoke said that she was in bed when she heard 6 shots ring out in the neighborhood. It was not until the 5th shot that she jumped out of her bed, she said, and moments later, she heard a sixth shot. She then looked through the window of her house, on Cemetery Road, and saw a man running across the street towards Glynn Street, which is located behind Xtra House, the front of which faces Cemetery Road. The man was dressed in a black shirt with a white T-shirt underneath, and black ? jeans pants, she said. It is not known whether the man was the gunman, or merely a spectator fleeing for safety.
In January of this year, Logan was released from the Hattieville Prison after serving 5 months for possession of a pipe. He had four previous convictions ? two for burglary, one for aggravated assault and one for possession of a pipe adapted for the use of smoking drugs.