Eleven violent deaths between Friday afternoon and yesterday morning kept police across the island busy. At the same time, the cops took six illegal guns, ammunition and a Molotov cocktail bomb off the streets and shot and injured two persons.

Three of the dead persons have not yet been identified, but police gave the names of the others as;

. Brian Shaw, 32, of Friendship Gap, St Mary;

. A man known only as “Sheldon”;

. Christopher Wright, 21, of Zion Road, Hanover;

. Jason Grant, 32, of Brompton Road, Kingston;

. Melford Clarke, 55, of Washington Boulevard, Kingston;

. Ricardo Bell, 18, of Joan Avenue, Montego Bay;

. Oniel Thompson, 26 of Norwood, St James; and

. A man known only as “Conroy”, from Winters Pen, St Catherine.

Shaw’s body was found in a barrel on a handcart at the Portmore bus terminus on Pechon Street, downtown Kingston. He was chopped all over his body and his throat was slashed.

On Friday, the man known only as “Sheldon” was shot by a group of rifle-toting men at a yard on Mark Lane. He was taken to hospital where he underwent treatment but succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

Yesterday residents of Mark Lane were livid after police shot and injured a freelance television cameraman and detained a number of persons.

The police said they were on patrol in the area after responding to a call that two gunmen were dragging away a man in the area. They said they saw two men who fit the description of the men and challenged them. One of the men escaped, the cops said, but the other was shot and seriously injured and a homemade firearm allegedly taken from him.

But the residents of Mark Lane said that the man was killed in cold blood. “Police a wicked. Them suppose to protect us not kill us off,” one woman shouted at reporters.

According to the residents, the dead man, whom they named as Jermaine, was not a gunman. He used a video camera to earn a living.

While some residents voiced their displeasure over the shooting, police and soldiers were busy searching homes in the area and found a .357 Magnum revolver with three live rounds underneath a mattress in a room at nearby Hamburg Lane. One man was arrested in connection with the find.

Meanwhile, the South St Andrew police reported the recovery of a submachine gun, a .38 revolver, a Smith and Wesson pistol with two magazines, a homemade shotgun, a Molotov cocktail bomb, three 12 gauge cartridges, 10 9mm and six .380 rounds of ammunition during an operation in Brown’s Land at about 4:30 yesteday morning.

A man known as “Emelio Leslie”, “Nicholas Brown” and “Paul Brown” engaged a policeman in a shoot-out and was shot and seriously injured.

In Hanover, Christopher Wright was apparently shot by a licensed firearm holder during an attempt to steal a Honda CRV at Tryall Heights early yesterday morning.

Police also reported that the bodies of two unidentified men were found with gunshot wounds in bushes in Ellerslie Pen, Spanish Town on Friday night.

Early yesterday morning another Spanish Town resident, known only as “Conroy”, was also found with gunshot wounds at Oxford Road in the town.

On Friday night, two unidentified men were shot dead along Churchill Avenue in Kingston.

Yesterday morning, cops from St Andrew North found the body of accountant Jason Grant stuffed in the trunk of his car at Skyline Drive in the Jacks Hill area.

Melford Clarke was killed by hold up men after he reportedly engaged them in a struggle at a business place in Newlands, St Catherine.

In St James, Bell and two other persons were sitting on a wall at Joan Avenue when a group of men attacked them and opened fire. Bell died from his wounds while a man and a 17-year-old girl were injured.