Residents walk around this broken manhole at the intersection of Brooks Avenue and Main Street in May Pen, Clarendon, where gunmen went on a rampage Tuesday night, shooting three persons, one fatally. - NathanielStewart/Freelance Photographer

Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

Spanish Town, St. Catherine:

An all-night manhunt by the May Pen police for two suspects, who allegedly shot and killed a businessman and injured two senior citizens, resulted in the fatal shooting of one of the suspects and the injuring of a 15-year-old, who is now in hospital under police guard.

The incident ended about 7:00 a.m. yesterday, along Hibiscus Close in Bushy Park, Clarendon, where Shalimar Booth, 19 years old, of a Chapelton Road address, was shot and killed. The police claimed that he and the 15-year-old engaged them in a gun battle in an abandoned house in the area.

Call from residents

According to Supt. Radcliffe Lewis of the Clarendon police, they got a call from residents of Circle Way in the Glenmuir Housing Scheme that gunmen had shot and killed 45-year-old Andrew Wint and injured two other men, 70 and 71 years old, respectively.

"We started to hunt for these criminals and it was quick and resolute action that led us to the hideout," Superintendent Lewis told The Gleaner.

He said an illegal gun was recovered from the body of the dead man, and that both suspects were positively identified as the persons who had carried out the shooting about 9 o'clock the previous night in the Glenmuir area.

When The Gleaner visited the area, Kerry Wint, Andrew's younger sister, said her brother was a very good person who was always smiling, and that she could not come to terms with why anyone would want to kill him.

"It was shortly before he died that my little girl went to the shop to purchase snacks and, after joking, he said 'later', and we did not know that gunmen would snuff out his life," she added.

The Bureau of Special Investi-gations has since commenced routine checks into Booth's death.