A man and his girlfriend were shot dead by unknown assailant/s at their home at Seaview, Flankers, St James, on Wednesday night.

Dead are Toussaint Cummings, 30, and 19-year-old Shamio Ladrick.

Reports from the CCN's St James liaison officer are that about 9:45 p.m., the couple was at home with their daughter when armed intruder/s entered and shot them. They died on the spot. The child was not hurt.

The police were summoned, the crime scene processed and the bodies removed to the morgue. The Montego Bay CIB is investigating.