Hanover, Jamaica (GETTING FROM BAD TO WORSE) : Spike in murders rocks Hanover....an alarming 11 murders last month catapulting the tally of persons killed in the parish to 24 since the start of the year....a mother who lost 2 sons grieved, "Two one time? Two one time? Oh God! Jesus! Mama! Lawd. Mama! Oh God! Whey mi pickney dem gone? Mi two pickney gone," she wailed before collapsing.

BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter  Thursday, July 02, 2015    
LAGOON, Hanover — THE Hanover Police Division recorded an alarming 11 murders last month catapulting the tally of persons killed in the parish to 24 since the start of the year -- four more than the corresponding period in 2014.
Mother of the murdered men Michelle James (right)
with family members. (PHOTO: PHILP LEMONTE)
"This is the worst June I have ever seen in the parish," a veteran lawman lamented. The latest murder in the parish was Monday night's killing of 47-year-old businessman Leslie Clarke, also called Big Ras, who was shot dead at the restaurant he operated across the road from the Green Island Police Station.
A police source close to the investigations told the Jamaica Observer West that Clarke's killing may have been a reprisal for Sunday morning's shooting of two brothers, 20-year-old Orane Pringle and 23-year-old Richard Hamilton, also called Blacks, at their home in the Lagoon community, near to Green Island.
(L) HAMILTON... bullet-riddled body found outside
house. (R) PRINGLE... one of two brothers shot dead.
 (PHOTOS: PHILP LEMONTE)
"Word on the streets is that the businessman is related to one of the persons suspected to be involved in the killing of the brothers," a cop close to the investigations revealed. Reports are that about 3:30 am the two siblings were at home -- one in the company of a female friend -- when a group of men with 9mm pistols swooped down on the two-apartment building.
The gunmen proceeded to kick open the front door then opened a barrage of gunfire on the three occupants. When the police arrived at the scene Pringle was discovered in the house lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds, while the blood-soaked, bullet-riddled body of his older brother was on the ground outside the wooden dwelling.
The female, who ran from the house during the shooting, was rushed to a medical facility where she is being treated for bullet wounds to one of her feet and a section of her upper body.
A distressed Michelle James (on ground)
is being assisted by family members
after she collapsed during an
interview with the Observer
West on Tuesday.
Investigators removed a number of 9mm spent shells from the scene of the incident.
When Observer West visited the Lagoon community this week, Michelle James, the distressed mother of Pringle and Hamilton -- two of her six children — fainted while being interviewed.
"Two one time? Two one time? Oh God! Jesus! Mama! Lawd. Mama! Oh God! Whey mi pickney dem gone? Mi two pickney gone," she wailed before collapsing. more

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