‘He would give you the shirt off his back’: Friends are grief stricken over man killed at scrap metal yard

When friends learned that the man killed off Carmichael Road on Thursday morning was Lenny Rolle whom they loved and cherished, they were in disbelief.

“Why?” Samuel Taylor questioned in a social media post.

He is believed to be in his 50’s.

Police said he was killed while at a scrap metal yard sometime before noon when a lone gunman shot him and then fled in a dark-colored vehicle. Friends said he was the owner and operator of the yard.

“He would have given the shirt off his back,” Mede Patton said, expressing Rolle’s kindness.

Dexter Dean remembers him as “a sweet person.”

“I just talked to you Tuesday night,” he recalled.

Denricka Gardiner, another friend, described him as, “a giant of a man.”

Two months ago, a Haitian man, Noel Vilma, 43, who also worked at the scrap metal yard, was also shot and killed, only a few feet from where Rolle died.

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Friends are pondering if there is a connection. Police said they are still looking into the matter to determine a link.

Harold Brown said when he last saw Rolle, they discussed the upcoming funeral for Vilma. “Now today, you gone. Life is really something else.”

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