Police c**** the scene for clues where the bodies of two men were found with multiple gunshot wounds in Plantation Heights, St Andrew yesterday. The body of a woman was also found metres from this scene, police say. (Photo: Michael Gordon)

A Plantation Heights couple had the shock of their lives when they awoke to find the bullet-riddled bodies of two men sprawled out in front of their home along Patrick Road in the upper St Andrew community yesterday morning.

The quiet community was further shaken by the discovery of a woman's body with multiple gunshot wounds before dawn in a separate section of the neighbourhood. The woman had gunshot wounds to the head, neck and chest.

A *lo**ied towel and a pair of slippers were also found beside her body, said residents who told of hearing explosions shortly after midnight.

Up to late yesterday afternoon, police had still not identified the three but said that although both incidents are being treated separately, it is possible that the three might have been murdered by the same men.

"Based on the distance and the times at which the bodies were found, the incidents are being treated separately, but that does not mean that they might not be linked with each other. That possibility will also be explored," Constable Richard Minott of the Constabulary Communication Network told the Observer.

As scene of crime detectives c****ed the area for clues yesterday, the couple who found the men was being pressed by investigators. According to the police, the two said they did not hear any explosions or vehicles outside the house the night before and only woke up to find the corpses at the entrance to the property.

But while the sleuths gathered information, several onlookers who rushed from nearby Asquint Drive, where the woman's body was earlier found, crafted their own version of events.
According to one female resident, several explosions echoed off the hillsides minutes after midnight.

"Is around seven gunshots me hear," the woman said as a detective took the fingerprints of one of the slain men behind the police yellow tape.

Yesterday's killings angered the residents who complained that hoodlums have been using their community as a dumping ground for the bodies of murder victims. The bushy hillsides, the residents say, provide the perfect cover for the criminals as they carry out their deeds.

"I want to know why these men don't keep it at them place. Them always just carry the foolishness come up at our community come nasty it up. Why them don't keep it at their place?" another woman, who said she had been living in the community for over 30 years, told the Observer.

"Plantation Heights is peaceful, no murder don't go on up here. The people them have them house up here selling and people want to come live up here. When these things happen nobody will want to come here," the woman said, amid nods of approval from fellow residents. .