SEVERAL communities in the East Kingston community of Rockfort were blocked by residents yesterday, as they tried to protect themselves from feuding gangsters who traded bullets between Monday night and yesterday morning.

Residents yesterday blamed the gunfights on last month’s murder of Marvin Reanu, who was said to be the so-called area leader of a volatile section of Rockfort called Gully.

His death has been blamed on men from Glasspole Avenue, also in Rockfort, but residents from that avenue yesterday denied the accusations, instead saying that many persons wanted to kill him, after he murdered a top ‘Hills man’ before going to England.

The police reported that Reanu was shot dead by a group of men while fixing a motorbike on April 21 on Glasspole Avenue. He was 27 years old.

In the meantime, residents of Rockfort yesterday called for the setting up of a command post between Glasspole Avenue and Gully, to act as a buffer and to stop gunmen invading the communities.

“We want the police and soldiers to put up a post there, so that people can move from one end to the other. Right now, not even de pickney dem caan get fi go a school,” said one resident.

“If this don’t stop now, it will get bloody, bloody, and more bloody,” said another resident.

A female resident, who asked not to be named, said that since the sporadic gunfire began almost two weeks ago several people have moved out of the community.