A police officer walks pass the car Kathy-Ann Samms-Francis was driving when she was killed Friday night. (Photo:Llewellyn Wynter)

THREE persons including an Air Jamaica flight attendant, were shot and killed Friday night.

According to police reports, 45-year-old Doreen Waldo was at home in James Hill, Clarendon with her common-law husband when two armed men barged in demanding money. The demands were met but they shot Waldo, killing her. Her companion was not harmed. This happened at 10:00 pm.

Ten minutes later, in Linstead St Catherine, 37-year-old Vernon 'Tim' Martin and another man were shot repeatedly when four gunmen fired at them. Martin, who was sitting inside his Toyota Hiace bus at the time was pronounced dead at hospital while the other man was admitted in serious condition.

Some twenty minutes after that, 31-year-old flight attendant Kathy-Ann Samms-Francis of Pamela Drive, Kingston 10, was shot and killed as she drove into her yard. Police report that a grey Mitsubishi Lancer and a white Toyota Caldina pulled up behind her and the occupants ordered the woman out of her car. She refused and attempted to drive away when one of the gunmen shot her. Samms-Francis lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a perimeter wall. She was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where she was a pronounced dead.