A bus conductor and his girlfriend, both residents of Evans Street in Denbigh, Clarendon, were murdered yesterday in what the police are theorising was a revenge killing.

Kirk Miller, 35, and Tamara Cooper, 29, were shot in their one bedroom boardhouse at 9:30 Saturday morning.

Constable Camay Watson, police liaison officer for Clarendon, told the Sunday Observer that investigators believed Miller was killed because he was a complainant in a case which was to go before the courts.

Miller had complained to the police on Friday that his house had been fired on by gunmen the previous Thursday evening. That complaint led to the arrest of a man.

“We suspect that this murder is a case of reprisal because he reported what happened before,” said Watson.

Woman Constable Watson said Miller and Cooper were on the inside of their house when they were attacked.

Residents in the community are apparently tight-lipped about the incident.

“No one said anything to the police. Houses are in close proximity but yet still they are saying that they heard nothing,” the police liaison officer told the Sunday Observer.

Yesterday, the May Pen crime division declined comment on whether any headway had been made in identifying the other three individuals alleged to have shot up the house on the Thursday evening.

“We don’t want to speak much about it now,” the Sunday Observer was told.

Spent shells belonging to a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol was taken from the scene.