For two years, ’Babyface’ eluded officers, The Chief of New York City Detectives, Joseph R. Borrelli, said yesterday that people who know the gunman have told the police that he believes he is untouchable.

”He has told a number of reliable sources that he paid a witch doctor on the Island of Jamaica to make him invisible to his enemies and the police,” Chief Borrelli said. ”As a result, he has no fear of either.”