FIVE MEN were shot and killed and a woman shot and injured in three incidents in Kingston, St. James and St. Catherine on Saturday and one man was killed in the Gordon Town area yesterday.
Castino Leslie, also called 'Santana' was walking along the Gordon Town road when he was attacked by three gunmen yesterday morning. Leslie, 23, was killed in what police sources say was a reprisal for an earlier shooting on Thursday.
According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), the information arm of the police force, two men were shot dead and a woman injured by gunmen at Amin Drive, Seivwright Gardens, Kingston 11, Saturday night.
Dead are 25-year-old Milton Johnson, otherwise called 'Ratty', and the other man who has only been identified as 'Frass'. Injured was a 20-year-old woman. All three were of Kingston 11 addresses.
PLAYING BINGO
Reports from the CCN's metro officer are that about 7:45 p.m. a group of persons was playing bingo at Amin Drive when they were approached by gunmen. The gunmen opened fire hitting the two men and the woman.
The injured men were pronounced dead at the Kingston Public Hospital while the woman was treated and released. The St. Andrew South Homicide Unit is investigating.
Meanwhile, the bodies of two young males were found with gunshot wounds in bushes in the Montego Heights community of St. James Saturday morning.
The police were summoned and are investigating the circumstances
surrounding the shooting deaths of the two, 15-year-old Michael Blake and 20-year-old Ruel Stone, both of Norwood, St. James.
Investigators who went to the scene found a home-made gun in Blake's waistband. The bodies were removed to the morgue for post-mortem.
The police are also looking into reports that gunshots were heard in the area about 2:00 a.m., prior to the discovery of the bodies.
Also about 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, 28-year-old Damion Harris, otherwise called 'Jay' of Bog Walk, St. Catherine, was shot dead by unknown assailants at Wallen district, Riversdale, in the parish.
EXPLOSIONS
Reports are that residents heard explosions and called the police. On their arrival, the police found Harris' body on a roadway in the community. It was removed to the morgue for post mortem.
And three senior members of the notorious 'Askel' gang based in Roehampton, St. James, are now in police custody following a joint police/ military raid in that community early Saturday morning during which a total of 20 persons were detained.
Several members of the gang are wanted in connection with numerous murders, robberies and shootings across four parishes in western Jamaica.
Superintendent Warren Clarke, commanding officer for St. James, told The Gleaner in an interview on Saturday that the identity of the men is being withheld pending processing and identification parades.
"The gang is a very active gang in the region and we have intelligence that suggests that they operate in as many as four parishes," said Superintendent Clarke.
