FOR Tanya Scott, it has not been a festive or peaceful Christmas season with its promise of good will towards all. A fortnight ago the father of her eight-year-old son was shot dead, then the boy was later shot in the hand.

On Christmas eve, Tanya’s brother, Gary Scott,18, was shot dead in Greenwich Park, one of at least 11 violent deaths – including two by the police – around the country between Christmas eve and yesterday, according to police reports.

At least five other people were shot and injured over the period.

Greenwich Park, where Tanya lives and has suffered so much tragedy recently, has been a hotbed of internecine violence and tit-for-tat killings.

About 11:30 pm Christmas eve Scott, Omar Noble, 17, and Leon Cowan, 18, were hanging out on Greenwich Road when a car drove up. Gunmen jumped out, opening fire on the three youngsters, before escaping in the vehicle. Scott was killed, his friends seriously injured.

“This is almost three weeks now that them kill me baby father,” Tanya said yesterday. “And then me eight- year-old son was shot in the hand.”

She blames the boys “from over the other community” for the earlier incident and the Christmas eve shooting.

“Is them a do it,” she said. “Them always come over and terrorise we.”

Her brother, Tanya insisted, was not a gang member, neither was he involved in wrong-doing.

“Him love to dance, him always love to laugh too,” she said.

Now Scott and the rest of her family, fearing for their own lives are looking to move out.

“My mother is not herself because of the incident,” she said.

Earlier on Christmas eve, Jerome Green, 20, was killed on Rodney Street, Jones Town, Kingston 12. Residents say that Green had gone to the community to deliver a present to his girlfriend, when he was apparently attacked. Police yesterday did not have a motive or name a suspect for the killing.

Police are also attempting to determine the motive of a Christmas eve double murder in downtown Kingston.

According to the police, Wayne Duncan, 44, of Seaview Avenue, Old Harbour Glades, St Catherine, was driving his taxi along Luke Lane when it came under fire from gunmen. A female passenger, who later died in hospital, was hit.

Duncan lost control of the vehicle which crashed into a parked car at the intersection of Beeston Street, and Luke Lane. Duncan ran from the car but was chased down by the gunmen who shot him dead.

On Christmas morning, a 45-year-old woman, Marie-Lyn Smith, was shot dead at her home at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town. According to the police, at about 6:30 gunmen removed a louvre from Smiths bedroom window and opened fire on her. She died later in hospital.

The police on Christmas day:

. found the body of a man, about 30, at Bamboo Pen, Hanover. The body had gunshot wounds.

. recovered the body of a man, believed to be about 45, from a precipice at Fort Charles Road, St Elizabeth. The body appeared to have stab wounds.

. Reported the murder of Desmond Samuda, 23, of William Street, Montego Bay, who was attacked and stabbed by unknown assailants on Union Street.

The police aslo reported that they shot dead two unidentified men at Salt Spring Road, St James in the fore noon on Christmas day. The police claim that they were on patrol when they saw three men who were approached.

The men, the police claim, opened fire, leading to a gunfight. At the end two injured men were found and an Intra-Tech submachine gun seized.

Another man who allegedly engaged the police in a gunfight on Spalding Boulevard, Kingston 20, was shot dead. A Recon .45 semi-automatic pistol was taken from his body, police said. The police also say that a man who attacked a policeman with a knife when accosted at the scene of a housebreaking was shot and injured.