THE police reported yesterday that another 10 persons were murdered at the advent of the weekend, all of whom were shot to death between Friday and Saturday morning.

The victims included eight males and two females.

Roy Williams, otherwise called ‘JB’ of Providence Heights, Flankers, was shot dead by unknown assailants in the community five minutes after midnight yesterday.

The police said that they were alerted after explosions were heard. The police then went to the scene where William’s body was found with multiple gunshot wounds on a dirt track.

Detectives from the Montego Bay CIB are investigating the incident.

On Friday, the first shooting occurred at about 6:30 am in which Anthony ‘Scallawa’ Taylor, 35, was killed by one of three gunmen who approached him at the intersection of Laws and Church Streets.

The police were alerted and the body was removed to the morgue.

Meanwhile, at approximately 10:00 am, Selvin Bennett, 47, otherwise called ‘Con Man’ from Mansfield Avenue, Homestead, St Catherine was shot dead by gunmen on Friday at 47 Valdez Road in that community.

Almost four hours later, the police were called to Rodney Road in Kingston where, 48 year-old Henry James, a shoemaker, was found dead.

Later on at about 4:15 pm, 25 year-old Annie McLaughlin was shot and killed by one of two gunmen at Wellington Road, Kingston 11.

According to the police, the incident occurred while McLaughlin was standing outside a bar on Wellington Road when a cream-coloured Toyota Corolla motor car registered 1995RP with two men aboard drove up.

The men alighted from the car with gun in hand and on seeing the guns McLaughlin fled, but the men gave chase and opened fire, hitting her several times.

She died at the Kingston Public Hospital while undergoing treatment.

About fours hours later in downtown Kingston, security guard Robert Brackenridge, 41, of 2nd Street, Greenwich Town, Kingston 13 was shot and a 53 year-old man injured during the ordeal.

Other deaths included another security guard Derrick Thompson of Coates Pen, who was shot and robbed of his firearm, a Smith and Wesson revolver with serial number CB0386; Earl Lecky, 42, of Hellshire Beach and Jermaine Lalor, 23 of South Circular Road; and Maureen Mullings, 34, of Rose Heights and Sun Valley Road, St James.

Mullings’ body was found riddled with gunshots on the Salt Spring main road in St James shortly after residents reported hearing explosions around 10:00 pm.