GUNMEN yesterday sprayed a Honda CRV with bullets shortly after the vehicle drove out of the Brite Lite Funeral Home on Dillon Avenue in Kingston, where the driver and another occupant had gone to do business at about 11:45 in the morning.

There were unconfirmed reports of a shooting in the vicinity of the funeral home on Sunday.

In yesterday’s shooting, both the male driver of the Honda CRV and another man were hit. The driver, whose name was withheld by the police, received multiple injuries to the left side of his body and was admitted to hospital in serious condition. The other man was treated and released.

According to the Half-Way-Tree police, the driver of the black Honda CRV, licensed 1304 EP, had just pulled out of the premises when the vehicle came under heavy gunfire from several gunmen.

“As the CRV drove out of Brite Lite and passed the parked garbage truck, four men alighted from a white Toyota Corolla and opened fire on the CRV,” Constable Derron Nish of the Half-Way-Tree police told the Observer.

The police said about a dozen shots were fired into the left and back sides of the vehicle. Officers said they recovered spent shells from a 9mm pistol and the other from a .45 revolver.

No motive was established for the shooting, but most of the shots were fired at the driver’s side, suggesting that he could have been the target of the attack.

One man employed to Brite Lite said he heard the gunshots but said his vision was blocked by a garbage truck parked in front of the neighbouring premises. Residents of Dillon Avenue, however, refused to speak about the incident.

Brite Lite is known for its extravagant funerals, including that of former Clansman gang leader Donovan “Bulbie” Bennett and dancer Gerald “Bogle” Levy.