The police yesterday reported six deaths in four parishes across the island, as well as the disappearance of a senior citizen from his home in Pembroke Hall, Kingston.

According to the Constabulary Communication Newtwork (CCN), the news arm of the police force, 52-year-old Godfrey Myers left his Cardiff Hall Avenue, Pembroke Hall, Kingston 20 home for an undisclosed destination at about 2:00 pm on December 18 and has not been seen since.

“He is of brown complexion, slim build and about 165 centimetres tall,” the police said.

Anyone knowing his whereabouts is being asked to contact the Duhaney Park Police at 933-4280, police emergency 119 numbers or the nearest police station.

The Duhaney Park Police are investigating.

The six reported deaths are of:

. Bartholomew Clarke 37, of Homestead, St Catherine;

. Danny Perkins, 34, of Weymouth Drive, Kingston 20;

. Anthony George Lower, 35, of Patrick City, Kingston 20;

. Melvin Johnson, 58, of Riverside Drive, Seaforth, St Thomas; and

. two unidentified men whose bodies were found in Denbigh, Clarendon and Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11.

According to the CCN, Clarke, a security guard, was found dead in the Rio Cobre near Ensom City, St Catherine on Friday.

He had been reported missing since December 20.

Police said residents found Clarke’s body with the hands bound at about 7:30 am.

“Investigators who visited the scene were assisted by firefighters from the Spanish Town Fire Department to remove the body from the water. It was taken to the morgue for post mortem examination,” the police said.

The Spanish Town Police are investigating.

Perkins’ body was found hanging by a length of rope from a rafter at a house at Whitney Drive, Kingston 20 on Friday at about 6:20 am.

The Duhaney Park Police are investigating.

Lower, the police said, was shot dead Friday night by gunmen at Vermont Avenue, Bridgeport, St Catherine.

According to the CCN’s liaison officer for St Catherine South, Lower, a taxi operator, was driving a Toyota Camry motor car registered PB9324 along Vermont Avenue at about 6:10 pm when he was shot. Three men were seen running from the direction of the vehicle.

When the police arrived on the scene, they found Lower’s body with a gunshot wound slumped over the steering wheel.

The St Catherine South Homicide Unit is investigating.

Almost two hours later, Johnson was shot dead by two men at his business establishment at Morant district, St Thomas. He died on the spot.

Investigators are asking anyone who may have any information which can lead to the arrest of Johnson’s killers to contact them at 734-7111, police emergency 119 numbers or Kingfish at 311.

One of the unidentified men was found in a gully off Cemetery Road in Denbigh, May Pen, Clarendon on Friday at about 10:00 am.

Police said the body is of dark complexion, medium build, about 172.72 centimetres tall and was clad in plaid khaki shirt, blue jeans pants and a pair of brown shoes.

“Close inspection of the body by investigators who went to the scene revealed a number of gunshot and chop wounds,” the CCN said.

The Clarendon Homicide Unit is investigating.

The other unidentified body was found yesterday at about 6:50 am in a gully near Joshua Edwards Avenue in Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11.

Police estimated the dead man to be in his early 30s. He is of brown complexion, slim build, about 175.26 centimetres tall and was clad in a white T shirt, blue jeans pants and a pair of white sneakers.

The body, the police said, had a number of gunshot and knife wounds.

The St Andrew South Homicide Unite is investigating.

Meanwhile, the police also reported that 52 year-old Edlyn Ashley of Warwick, Manchester, became the third fatality from Thursday’s motor vehicle accident at 19 Miles, Sandy Bay on the Bustamante Highway in Clarendon.

Ashley was travelling in a pick-up being driven by Marlon Mullings which crashed with an IGL truck at about 2:00 pm. Mullings and another passenger, 46 year-old higgler Alberta Richards, both died on Thursday.

Ashley succumbed to her injuries about 6:30 Friday morning. The police did not give an update on the fourth person in the pick-up, Leroy Porter, 45, who was also hospitalised.