By: Staff Writer
October 26, 2021
Jamaican cult leader Kevin Smith, who has been in custody since Sunday after two of his followers were killed in a “human sacrifice” ritual that ended in a deadly standoff with police, has died in a car crash along with a police officer that was transporting him.
The details of the crash are grim and it is said that officers from the police escort team were transporting Smith when the accident occurred along the Bog Walk Bypass.
Police sources said the pastor and three members of the police team that was transporting Smith were injured. They were taken to hospital where Smith and a constable succumbed to their injuries.
The name of the officer killed in the crash is Constable Orlando Irons but the others injured have not been released, but we are expecting a full investigation into what led to the crash.
Social Media has come out strongly after the news broke that Pastor Smith was dead.
One person said, “think this was another sacrificed [sic]” referencing the charges that were facing Smith when he was arrested after a deadly standoff with Jamaican police this past Sunday. And another, “Dead wey it’s just a scheme form the movie and sacrifice the poor police man.”
Another commenter said, “This is how the devil works he use you and then kill you.”
Another commenter, more suspicious about the details surrounding the fatal crash, added: “hmm, this seems suspicious though. I don’t know, perhaps him being caught might reveal names of some “important people” he has worked with or it’s staged and next thing you hear his body is missing from the morgue. I could be way off, but I’m not just buying this right off the bad. This whole case is too bizarre.”
Other persons have all condemned Mr Smith to hell in a firestorm of comment on various news pages discussing his death.
Not everyone is castigating Mr Smith or the members of his Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries however. Neita Robertson a lawyer in Jamaica, in a statement carried by the Jamaica Observer, reiterated that she does not try her cases in public.
However, she said she was forced to comment in light of “the social media and mainstream media frenzy,” that is emanating from the church and which has “risen to a pitch resulting in the members of the church being ostracised and put in fear”.
“The labelling of the church as a cult is deliberate and unfortunate and is at the seat of the attack on ordinary, decent Jamaicans and their faith,” Neita Robertson stated.
She charged that “this is a threat against churches. It is reminiscent of the ancient days in which the Church is persecuted.”
Smith’s death is creating more confusion than his life and notorious behaviour. The investigation into the sacrifices have not begun however reports are surfacing that Smith had opened an insurance policy on one of the person’s sacrificed, Tanicka Gordon.
Leading up to the fatal day Smith had been calling for his followers on social media to get prepared to get on the ark as he was preparing a way to take them from this realm to another.
As this suspicious death of Smith and the police officer transporting him lingers, it is up to sincere and sober minded police officers to get to the bottom of this to give a clearly shocked and confused community some solace.