By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterGUNMEN STRUCK in the violence-plagued community of Gem Road, Kingston 13 yesterday, shooting three persons, two of them fatally.
One of the men was identified as Christopher Ricardo Heckles, of a Burnam Park Way address in Waterford, St. Catherine. The others were still unidentified up to press time last night.
Heckles and one of the unidentified men were shot along Gem Road, while the other victim was executed at the entrance of a tenement yard on Gem Crescent, about 120 metres from where the other two men were shot.
"We have not established a motive for the killings," said Deputy Superintendent Delroy Hewitt, acting commanding officer for the Kingston West Division.
ATTACKER CORNERED
Reports are that Mr. Heckles and the other man were travelling in a white Toyota Corolla motor car, which was being operated as a route taxi on the Kingston to Spanish Town route when they were attacked and shot along Gem Road.
It is alleged that minutes later their attacker was cornered by a group of men who beat and then executed him along Gem Crescent.
The Gleaner further understands that after the execution, an illegal 9mm pistol was removed from the slain man's body by his attackers.
Rival factions of Sunlight Street and Gem Road have been involved in a bloody feud for the past five weeks. Several persons have since been killed and injured.
In the meantime, the police weekly crime statistics indicate that 24 persons were murdered last week. This is six fewer than the 30 murders reported the previous week. Some 47 persons were killed two weeks ago, pushing the murder figure for the month of August beyond the 140 mark. More than 900 Jamaicans have been murdered since January.
