Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer
NORMAN GRINDLEY/DEPUTY CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER - Camille Buchanan (right), JLP councillor for the Gregory Park divison, is consoled by James Robertson, member of Parliament for Western St. Thomas. Buchanan's driver and another man were shot and killed at the St. Catherine South Central Electoral office at Twickenham Park in Spanish Town yesterday.
SPANISH TOWN: SIX PERSONS were shot, two fatally, as gun violence reared its ugly head in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine yesterday.
At about 1:30 p.m., while scores of people were visiting the Electoral Office at the Spanish Village Plaza in Twickenham Park, three gunmen entered the building, brandished guns and fired shots, hitting six persons.
In the aftermath, 19-year-old labourer Kirk Gordon of Little Lane in Central Village and 29-year-old Stanley Griffiths, a driver employed to Councillor Camille Buchanan of the Gregory Park division, lay dead. Those injured are Gervay Richards, Marsha Boyd, Verona Fennel and Glenroy Williams all of Spanish Town addresses.
A weeping Councillor Buchanan told The Gleaner that she had commenced enumeration exercise in her division and had sent Griffiths to pick up ID cards. She said that in the name of politics she will not allow persons within her division to be killed in cold blood.
Reacting to the shootings, South Central St. Catherine Member of Parliament Sharon Hay Webster, said that the parish council division was now under siege from murderers. "Everywhere in my division is murder - Central Village, Jones Avenue, De La Vega City, Rivolie - and it is frustrating."
STOP HIDING CRIMINALS
She said the time has come for persons to stop hiding criminals and put forward whatever information they have to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The Spanish Town police, who are investigating the crime, have not yet established a motive for the
shootings.
The shooting deaths are the latest plaguing the Spanish Town area and brings the national murder figure to 280 since the start of the year.
