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Five persons, including two women, were murdered in Effortville, Clarendon, in less than 24 hours, as cowards wreaked havoc in the tough community.
Six people, including a pregnant woman, were shot in three separate incidents on Leon Avenue and Alexander Avenue on Wednesday. Three of the victims, including a mother of three, succumbed to their injuries. By nightfall yesterday, there was another shooting, leaving a man and a woman dead.
Senior Superintendent of Police Glenford Miller, head of the Clarendon police, said that From our indications, the double murder is a reprisal of the triple murder last night (Wednesday). A contingent of police and military personnel were deployed within the Effortville and Farm areas even at the time of the double killing since night (Thursday), he said.