Assistant Commissioner of Police Micheal Smith (right), head of the Area 3 police, leading a high-level police team on a tour of Effortville in Clarendon last night. Eight persons were shot in the community, five fatally, between Wednesday and Thursday. Other members of the team include Senior Superintendent Glenford Miller, head of the Clarendon Division; Superintendent Christopher Philips; Deputy Superintendent Owen Brown; and DSP Dodd.
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Relatives of one of the victims killed in a spate of gun attacks in Effortville, Clarendon, on Wednesday night have since fled the community after reportedly being threatened that their house would be burnt to the ground, even as a curfew has been imposed on the area to restore a sense of calm.
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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.