A TEENAGER who was chased 400 feet then stabbed and chopped to death was among three people killed within a nine-hour period in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday.

The teen is 19 year-old Gilon Thompson of Newlands, St Catherine. The others who were killed are:

* Prince Ellis, the 56 year-old father of 11 and managing director of Nimrod Security firm. He was also a district constable and a Justice of the Peace; and

* Donald Mitchell, of Zaidie Gardens in Kingston.

Thompson, who is also called ‘Perry’, was attacked on Augusta Drive in Independence City. Police say he was sitting at a tyre shop in the area with a group of men when his killers struck.

No motive has yet been established for the killing, the Portmore police say.

The teen tried to escape his attackers and managed to run about 400 feet before collapsing near a cook-shop. His right arm was almost severed at the shoulder and there was a deep wound to the right side of his chest. His left fist was clenched tightly while his face lay half-buried in the parched earth.

His mother, Lorraine Thompson, could not hold back her pain and shouted the name of Jesus over and over as she looked at his lifeless body.

“Mi nuh have no money fi bury him,” she told the Observer in between heaving sobs.

A group of women who arrived at the death scene sat in the dirt and sent up a chorus of wails as crime scene investigators searched for clues. The cries rose a few decibels when the undertakers turned over Thompson’s body and the full extent of his injuries became visible.

“Take mi wid him,” one scantily-clad female shouted, “Take mi wid him.”

Among the relatives Thompson leaves behind is an eight month-old son.

Meanwhile Ellis, who fathered more than 10 children, was murdered at about 1:40 am as he walked with a friend in the Marine Park section of the community. Police say he was pounced upon by two armed men who shot him in the upper body. He collapsed in a yard along Marine Way and was later pronounced dead at hospital.

According to his relatives, Ellis’ attackers failed to relieve him of the cash he carried — US$2000 and J$10,000 — as well his 9mm pistol and his jewellery.

The dead district constable was also the concessionaire for the canteen at the Portmore police station and his death is being mourned by officers and civilians who worked in the canteen.

Yvonne Gooden, who is employed as a waitress in the canteen, remembered her former boss as one of the best she has ever worked with.

Ellis was the second cop to be killed in St Catherine at the weekend.

And Mitchell was killed when gunfire erupted in the community of Four East, Greater Portmore just before 3 am yesterday. The Constabulary Communication Network report that he went to a house in the area when a dispute developed between him and a man known as Owen Shakespeare. Shakespeare, police say, pulled a firearm and shot Mitchell. Shakespeare, who is on the run, is now being sought by homicide detectives from the Portmore police station.

Eight hundred and seventy-six people have so far been murdered across the island this year.