CONTRACT KILLING

Murder Of Dad Ordered By Jailed Drug Rival: Sources

Delroy "Sploogle" Daring's slaying was the result of a jailhouse death
contract issued by a drug rival who he helped send to prison, sources
say.

Daring, gunned down in a crowded Scarborough courtyard Thursday, was
the target of two previous unsuccessful hits, including a botched
shooting, community sources said.

The death of the father of 10 is expected to bring a new wave of gun
violence to the city as the Markham and Eglinton Boys, to which Daring
belonged, go after his killer, sources warned.

LEADING DEALER

Daring, 41, was considered among the leading drug dealers, earning
enough from crime proceeds to build a large home in his native
Jamaica, sources said.

He was shot four times outside a housing project in the Eglinton Ave.
E. and Markham Rd. area in a hail of gunfire that sent up to 20 people
scrambling for cover. There have been no arrests.

"He was being stalked by gunmen," one gang source said yesterday. "He
was warned of the contract a number of times."

Daring had a criminal record dating to 1986, five years after moving
to Canada from Jamaica at age 17, police sources said.

He had been ordered deported from Canada for being here illegally, but
was granted a stay by an immigration board, police said.

He had began providing police information about three weeks ago in a
bid to jail rival dealers, sources said. That led to the arrest of a
leader of the rival Markham-Eglinton Crew, gang sources said.

It was that man who issued the murder contract on Daring from the Don
jail, sources said.

The contract was made a priority after Daring held an anti-gun
barbecue and children's sports day Aug. 7, at which gang members
suspected he was co-operating with police and "naming names," sources
said.

Homicide squad Det. John Biggerstaff said there were other attempts on
Daring's life, including one in which shots were fired at his barbecue.

"He was a target," Biggerstaff said. "This person has a history of
violence and a history of drugs."

Police found 12 "dime bags" of pot in his pockets after his
murder.

Biggerstaff stressed Daring was not an anti-gun or anti-violence
activist.

"This is an untruth," he said yesterday. "The activities that brought
him to the courtyard are inconsistent with someone who is against gun
violence."