The arrests are in connection with the killing of Robert Macford Bush in West Bay on 13 September, 2011, according to the police service. The two men arrested are 17 and 18 years old.
The arrests took place during a police operation in West Bay Thursday. A number of houses were searched and a quantity of ammunition was seized during the police raids.
In addition to the two arrests, police said a man was arrested for threatening violence and a woman for possession of ganja.
Mr. Bush, 28, was the first homicide victim of 2011in the Cayman Islands. His death was followed by four other deadly shootings, thought to be gang-related, within the space of nine days in September 2011.
According to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, Mr. Bush’s Honda was seen on Captains Joe and Osbert Road near Birch Tree Hill Road around 11.20pm the night he was shot.
Mr. Bush, who was inside the vehicle, had been shot in the head and could not be revived by CPR.
The 911 call came from a woman who was inside the Honda with Mr. Bush at the time the shooting occurred. She was thought to have been hit by pellets from a shotgun that was fired into the car, according to witnesses. However, she survived the attack.
It was believed several shots were fired in the direction of the vehicle while it was on Captains Joe and Osbert Road, possibly with more than one weapon, by suspects who approached the car on foot.
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