Mark Beckford, Staff Reporter

The incoming government of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will have a burgeoning crime rate to deal with when it is officially sworn in perhaps some time next week.

Four persons had their lives snuffed out between Tuesday and yesterday evening, pushing the number of persons killed to the 1,000 mark.

One of the proposals of the JLP's election manifesto is to stop the inflow ofillegal guns; this will have to be successful as the gun was used in all of the most recent killings.

Man shot dead

In the first incident on Tuesday evening, 26-year-old Damion Marsh, otherwise called 'Tin Man', of Glen Drive, Kingston 8, was shot dead during a dispute with a man on Manor View Drive in the Cassava Piece area.

The St. Catherine North Homicide Unit has commenced a probe into the shooting death of two persons and the injuring of a third in Ewarton, St. Catherine, yesterday morning.

Dead are Canron Cameron, 30, and Donovan Riley, 40, both of Ewarton addresses. Injured is a 32-year-old man.

Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network's liaison officer for St. Catherine North are that at about 12:12 a.m. the three were among a group of persons in Ewarton square, when a grey motor car drove up.

Occupants in the vehicle pulled guns and opened fire, hitting the three. The police were summoned and the injured persons were taken to hospital where Cameron and Riley were pronounced dead. The other man was admitted in serious condition.

St. Mary was also the scene of a murder on Tuesday night after a man was shot and killed on the Mango Valley main road. He has been identified as Robert Morrison, 30, otherwise called 'Robbie', of Edgehill, Mango Valley.