THE police have linked the deaths of two St Andrew men to the ongoing conflict in the volatile community of Common, located off Red Hills Road in St Andrew.

They have been identified as 36-year-old Anthony Brown, also called ‘Sixteen’, a conductor and DVD vendor of a squatter settlement at East Kirkland Heights in St Andrew and 32-year-old Lorne Green, also called ‘Robert’.

Brown’s body, with its head almost severed, was found minutes to seven yesterday morning along Perkins Boulevard. The body was clad only in an underpants and the hands were bound behind the back with a piece of black electrical cord. His feet were tied with a shoelace. A small blotch of blood stained the brown grass near his lifeless body.

Onlookers who glimpsed the body were repulsed at the horrific sight.

“Oh my God. What a sickening thing fi see. Them kill him like him a animal,” one woman said as she held her stomach and sunk to the ground.

Homicide investigators believe ‘Sixteen’ was killed before his body was dumped at the spit of land between a tributary of the Sandy Gully and Perkins Boulevard, which runs between the intersection of Red Hills and Molynes Roads and Patrick City.

And the police reported that Green was shot and killed at a premises on Sunrise Crescent early Thursday morning. Officers said they were summoned to the area by residents who reported hearing loud explosions and seeing a group of heavily-armed gunmen.

Upon the arrival of the police, Green, who was said to be mentally-challenged, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.