OCHO RIOS, St Ann – The usually quiet community of Queen’s Crescent, tucked off the Queen’s Highway in Discovery Bay, was the scene of a double murder Monday morning when gunmen invaded the area and shot dead a gardener and his girlfriend.

Residents said they heard explosions at around 7:15 am and called the police, who found the bodies of the gardener, Egbert Coley, 28, and his 39 year-old girlfriend Elva Rose Williams, a higgler of Standfast, St Ann.

Coley’s body was found on the premises where he worked for several years, while that of Williams was next door on premises with an unfinished house, which police said she occupied up to the time of her death.

The gunmen reportedly escaped in a grey motorcar, registered 8934 DZ. The police could not say what was the make of the car. They also had no motive for the killings.

Yesterday’s murders were the second double killings in the parish this year.

In January, 38 year-old Michelle Thornton and her eight year-old daughter, Marley, were found stabbed to death in their bedroom in Mount Pleasant, near Runaway Bay.

Meanwhile, the St Ann police were yesterday awaiting the results of a post mortem to determine the cause of death of a man, whose body was fished from the sea off the coast at Mammee Bay.

The body, which is of a dark complexion, medium built and said to be about five feet nine inches and weighing about 175 pounds, was clad in a pair of green floral shorts.