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Commanding officer for St James, Superintendent Merrick Watson, told reporters during a press conference at the Montego Bay Freeport Police Station yesterday that Murray was killed at about 7:30 am during a confrontation with members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

According to Watson, Murray also wrote in his diary that he was not afraid of the police and that his gun was his best friend.

Coke was captured in June and extradited to the US to face gun and drug trafficking charges. Murray, the police said, had been on the run since 2002 after he was fingered in at least six murders committed in St James in previous years.

The police said he frequently visited Norwood, Salt Spring and Rose Heights in St James; Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland; and the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston. He is also accused of a triple murder at Felicity Road in Montego Bay, St James in February 2006.

Despite several police dragnets and a $1-million bounty, the fugitive had managed to elude the police.