A woman looks on in horror at the *lo**-stained room where sisters Lisa and Christina Brown were shot dead yesterday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

RUDOLPH Brown may have had plans to have his two teenage daughters by his side when he celebrates his 70th birthday today.

Instead, the grief-stricken old man may have to start making funeral arrangements for his little girls -17-year-old Lisa and 19-year-old Christina - who were brutally slain shortly after 5:00 pm yesterday when three armed men entered the family's home on Henderson Avenue in Kingston and sprayed them with bullets.

A *lo**-stained novel opened at the edge of Christina's ransacked bed and a pool of *lo** on the floor told of the ghastly tale of their last moments.

Christina's bullet-riddled body lay in a relaxing posture with one of her legs resting on a window sill, while her sister was shot dead as she crouched with her hand over her face behind a chest of drawers - suggesting that they were begging the gunmen to spare their lives even while they tried to dodge the bullets.

Undated file photos of the slain sisters, Christina (above) and Lisa Brown.

A large crowd quickly gathered at the death scene, located off Waltham Park Road, a poor section of the Jamaican capital, Kingston, but like many inner-city killings, residents were tight-lipped when questioned by reporters, even though some quietly speculated about the motive behind the killings.

The police reported that the men, armed with 9mm pistols, entered the house from the rear and shot the two sisters, then fired at their father before escaping in a gully behind the premises. Brown was not hit.

The murders pushed the island's staggering murder rate closer to the 650 mark as the island's security forces struggle to curb the country's crime wave.

"Me want me daughter, me don't want no man round me. Me nuh want no man round me, tell him to leave me alone. A man kill me daughter me don't want nothing to do with them," Donna Brown, the girls' mother yelled as reporters approached her.

The despondent woman shook uncontrollably as members of her church consoled her behind the police yellow tape. A few feet from the grieving woman was her husband who stood silently staring as crime scene detectives journeyed back and forth from the house.

According to Brown, he was outside sitting under a tree when the gunmen entered.

"I was right here when all of a sudden I just start hear the dog them start bark and as me get up to look I just hear pow, pow and same time me see them coming out of the house and them fire some shot after me before them run away. Is them time there me go see them kill me daughter," the elderly man said.

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