With exactly for weeks left in the year, Jamaica is on track to register one of its highest murder tolls since the turn of the decade, with at least 1,400 persons already killed.

The bloody trend continued on the weekend with at least six Jamaicans having their lives brutally taken between Saturday morning and yesterday, according to police reports.

The six, including five men, were killed in the parishes of St. Andrew, Kingston, St. Catherine and St. James.

The first murder occurred about 11:55 a.m. in Reids Pen, Old Braeton, St. Catherine, on Saturday morning. Reports from the police are that a developed between Marsha Russell and her aunt. During the fight, a knife was used to stab her. The police were summoned and she was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital where she died while undergoing treatment. The Portmore police are now on the hunt for her aunt.

Guns pulled

A man of unsound mind was also killed on Saturday. According to police reports, 30-year-old Khari Campbell of a Waterford address, had a with a group of men. During the dispute, men from the group pulled guns and opened fire, hitting him several times. The police were summoned and Campbell's body was seen in an open lot.

In St. James, 39-year-old Clinton Smalling of Bottom Pen, Glendevon, was killed by unknown assailants in Providenc Flankers. About 7:00 p.m., citizens heard explosions and called the police. On the arrival of the lawmen, Smalling was found with gunshot wounds on a roadway in the community. His station wagon was also found crashed into a nearby shop.

On Sunday morning, a man known only as 'Steve' was shot and killed by gunmen at Boulevard Close in New Haven, Kingston 20. The dead man is of dark complexion, medium build, about 193 centimetres tall and was clad in a blue T-shirt, blue jeans shorts, and a pair of black and white Nike sneakers.