This guy really IS a player:
From Weight of Glory’s link:
Shawn Sherwin Labeet, 25, is now on the run from Miami-Dade police after allegedly shooting four police officers, killing one. Keith LaBeet said Shawn is the half-brother of Ishmael LaBeet, who was
implicated in eight slayings at a St. Croix resort in 1973, a crime known in the Virgin Islands as the Fountain Valley Massacre.
‘’We’re all half-brothers. ... What can I say? My father got around,’’ said Keith. ``There’s a lot of us .... Shawn is one of the younger ones.’’
Shawn Labeet was not yet born in 1972 when Ishmael LaBeet and four associates killed eight people at a St. Croix resort, Carambola.
The five — all dressed in fatigues — sprang out of the bushes at the Rockefeller-owned Fountain Valley golf course in St. Croix and sprayed the dining area with bullets.
According to newspaper accounts of the 1972 massacre, the attackers rounded up as many as 15 people into a nearby patio. Four Miami residents were among them. Eight were ordered to kneel in a circle
and systematically shot to death with a shotgun and .45-caliber and 9mm pistols. The four from Miami, two couples vacationing together, were among the dead.
The five black robbers, who had screamed racial, anti-white insults during the massacre, according to witnesses, then fled with $731 from the cash register and the personal effects of the dead.
Thirteen years later, on New Year’s Eve, 1985, Ishmael LaBeet overpowered guards from the Virgin Islands Department of Corrections who were escorting him on a flight from St. Croix to New York.
LaBeet forced the American Airlines flight with 198 people aboard to divert to Havana, Cuba, where he was taken off the plane by Cuban authorities. The plane later made the flight to New York with the
rest of the passengers.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/236803.html
“LaBeet forced the American Airlines flight with 198 people aboard to divert to Havana, Cuba, where he was taken off the plane by Cuban authorities. The plane later made the flight to New York with the
rest of the passengers.”
And AFAIK he hasn’t been seen or heard from since. I think that was the last US aircraft to be hijacked to Cuba, BTW.
Thanks for the information (post #688). I hadn’t watched or listened to any news all day. This thread is the first time I have heard of this story.
Nice family tree....