WESTERN BUREAU – The naked, bullet-riddled body of 32 year-old bus driver Christopher “Scooby Doo” Brissett was found slumped across the steering wheel of his bus along a secluded road in Hanover, yesterday morning. There was no sign of 16 year-old Nickesha Lindo, from Mosquito Cove District in the parish, who is believed to have been with Brissett at about 11:00 last night.

The police’s information arm, the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), yesterday issued a missing persons report for Lindo who is fair, slim and about 5 ft 4 inches tall.

A pair of white women’s sneakers, a red brassiere and other items of female clothing were found outside Brissett’s van along with his shoes, underwear, pants and shirt. A pack of baby diapers also lay near the pile of clothing.

Brissett, who was from Rose Hill in Hanover, was shot in his right wrist, right breast and in the lower left side of his abdomen. The glass door on the driver’s side of his van was shattered.

Several 9mm spent shells were recovered at the scene – a cul-de-sac along the old Barbican main road near Sandy Bay in Hanover. His body was found at about 8:07 am yesterday, according to the CCN.

Brissett’s wife Maranine said her husband left home Saturday night to drive a cousin to Sandy Bay. She went to a Fire Links dance in Lucea, she said, but tried to contact her husband by phone at about midnight. His phone just rang, she said.

Maranine said she got home at about 2:00 yesterday morning but her crying baby, Kishanna, kept her up. She got word of her husband’s death some time after 7:00 yesterday morning, she said.

“Before he left, he gave me US$1,500 for the baby and I give him the Pampers,” she said as tears streamed down her face. “Him sey him soon come back.”

The slain man’s mother, Desrine Brissett, said he was her only child.

“It hurts to the core,” she said, as she spoke about her son’s pleasant personality. “He was a loving and kind person, even his passengers knew that,” she said. “They loved him and would wait on him to take them to and from work.”

As the news of Brissett’s death spread throughout the parish yesterday, traffic piled up along the main road to Lucea as commuters strained to catch a glimpse of the crime scene.

Brissett was just one of three people killed in St James yesterday.

Among the others is 27 year-old Rayneo “Carl” Thompson, an unemployed Norwood man whose body was found at about 2:30 am in a pool of blood near Dakker Square in the community. The police, who believe the killing was an act of reprisal, said they found several 9mm spent shells at the scene.

The third person is 27 year-old bartender Paula Hall, who lived at Tank Road in Cambridge.

The police said she was stabbed to death during an altercation with a man in her apartment at about 8:30 am.

Additional reporting by staff reporter Mark Cummings