ARMED men early yesterday kicked off the door to apartment number 623 in a section of Arnett Gardens known as “Texas”, killing a man and his daughter, and while leaving the community shot dead a man and a woman riding on a motor bike.

Last night, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields visited Arnett Gardens and asked residents of the inner-city community to tell what they knew about the killing of the four.

“We are asking anyone who has any information to come forward as these gunmen who are almost terrorists will kill you too,” Shields said.

The killing of the four came on the heels of Tuesday’s murder of three people just outside the Denham Town Police Station in West Kingston, where one of the victims had gone to report to the police as a condition of his bail on a gun charge.

Police, however, did not link the killing of the four in Arnett Gardens, South St Andrew, yesterday to the Denham Town shooting, saying an ongoing gang feud between factions at opposing ends of Arnett Gardens – popularly known as “Concrete Jungle” – could be responsible for the four deaths.

“We just know that it is part of the internal gang feud between top and bottom Jungle, something that has been going on for years now,” said Superintendent Delroy Hewitt of the West Kingston police.

“What is unsettling now is that a lot of women are [now] being killed. It’s not new, but unsettling,” said the superintendent.

Residents of Arnett Gardens told the Observer yesterday that minutes after 3:00 am, the armed men invaded house number 623 and sprayed 57-year-old Alfred Grant and his 21-year-old daughter Shakira with bullets, killing them instantly.

The men, while escaping along West Avenue in Arnett Gardens, fired on Natasia Gordon, of West Road, and Nashan Bryan, of Rockfort, Kingston, who were riding a motor bike out of the community, killing both.

According to the police, at least 34 spent shells were found at the shooting scenes.

“Boy, just when you think the place going to be calm it just rise up back,” an Arnett Gardens resident said yesterday.

“A people who not firing guns them (the killers) a turn them gun on,” another resident said.