GUNMEN between Monday night and early yesterday morning murdered four persons and injured three others in Clarendon and St Catherine.

Police identified the dead as 20-year-old Orane Grey and his brother Dane, who, as well as three others aged 13, 17, and 27, where shot by a thug who invaded their Havannah Heights home in Clarendon about midnight.

Two hours earlier, Suzette Chaplen, 39, and Old Harbour Bay High School student Lancewell McLeod, 17, were shot dead in Old Harbour Bay, police said.

According to the cops, residents of Havannah Heights heard explosions coming from the house where Grey and the other four lived, and later saw a man running from the rear of the premises with a gun in his hand. They later discovered that the five had been shot.

They were taken to hospital where Dane and Orane died. The others were listed in serious condition.

"We are getting some information, but at the moment it is sketchy," said head of the Clarendon Police Division Superintendent Dayton Henry.

"We are in the process of getting some information on the killer but we have not yet got a chance to speak with some of the persons who we would like to," Henry continued.

In Old Harbour Bay, dozens of residents turned up at Chaplen's bar and grocery shop in tears as they reflected on her murder.

She was killed on a muddy track outside her home. Residents said she had left her business place to take snacks for her children nearby when she was gunned down.

"I couldn't believe when I saw Suzette lying face down in the mud," cried one of her friends.

"Them kill Suzette with two (mosquito) destroyers, a cup soup, and some other little things in the bag. It was no robbery, they definitely came to kill them," the woman said, tears still streaming down her face.

The residents said McLeod was shot several times and collapsed metres from where he was hit. They added that the marauding gunmen fired upon them when they attempted to assist the two, sending them scurrying for cover.

Yesterday, a trail of *la*hd-stains on the ground told the grim tale of McLeod's final seconds alive.

Crime boss at the St Catherine South Police Division Deputy Superintendent Barrington Daley and other investigators visited the community to reassure residents and to gain information about the double murder.