Residents of Rose Town, Kingston, demonstrated on Spanish Town Road yesterday, protesting against Monday's killing of Richane Ellison, 22, who was gunned down while heading to work.

The residents, bearing several placards, say Ellison, who stayed overnight in the community after visiting his mother, was an innocent casualty of an ongoing war between the neighbouring Greenwich Town and Boat Island communities.

They say Rose Town is not a part of that war and does not want to be drawn into it. "We nuh inna nuh war, a nine years now we a keep the peace. Money over gun and peace over gun. Wi nuh know a weh dem a try," a resident says, calling for the killer(s) to come forward.

Up to late yesterday the Hunts Bay police were still trying to gather information regarding the circumstances surrounding the killing, but residents say Ellison was at a bus stop when he was approached by persons and asked where he lived. When he responded, they shot him several times.