Last night we brought you the story of the chilling murder of club owner Ernesto Williams which occurred on Friday night at the corner of Orange Street and Taylor’s Alley.

And tonight we can give you an insight into the events that preceded Willam’s death. Roderick Wade may have been the last person to see Willams alive. He spoke to us today and told us that while rumours abound, Ernesto Williams was indeed executed in an ambush. 

Roderick Wade - Friend of the Deceased
"Most nights when we hang out he normally has his licensed gun on him, right. But that night I went to the clothing store and he was like let’s go to this house we’ll go and have a little party at this house and I was like but why do you want to go around that neighbourhood and you don’t even have your gun so he was like you know what I’m not worried about that and I ended up going with him, we ended up upstairs drinking, we were eating some black dinner cause apparently his favourite food was black dinner. We ate everything, whatever, and the owner of the house asked me to drop the mother home and that’s when I went to drop the lady off. By the time I spun back I got the news that he actually got killed but that whole night that man there was happy like you could see he just got a fresh trim I think he was supposed to leave to go to Skydeck because he had some business to do there and that’s how he ended up outside of that house there to go up to Skydeck but that whole night the man was happy."

Cherisse Halsall
"So what’s your opinion on the rumour that he was executed?

Roderick Wade
"Well, He was executed but whatever everything is rumoured at the end of the day you leave the police to do their investigations. I heard a lot of rumours but again those are rumours I wouldn’t touch on that topic there. I really no know mein they just chance the man out of his life. The man always run joke about how they had already tried to kill him but they didn’t get through, you know the man was kind of stubborn at the same time but the was a good person and like what the news said the man wasn’t known to the law like that, so again I’d say it was hate."

Cherisse Halsall
"What do you think about the fact that his murder might have been an ambush?"

Roderick Wade
"That was basically, like how you said earlier, the same word that you said earlier I think it is an ambush because at the end of the day I know he wouldn’t have been standing up out there that long for them to come after him and kill him so it was an ambush."

Wade believes that William’s club Skydeck should be left open as a tribute to the consummate businessman.  Indications are, however, that it will close down.