HOMICIDE detectives from the St Andrew South police division were up to late last night trying to find the killers of two men who were shot in the volatile community of Maverley in St Andrew early yesterday morning.

The dead men have been identified as Michael Lunan, 45, also called ‘Mikey Foreigner’ and 18-year-old Andrew Smith, also called ‘Pong’.

Police say they were summoned to the area by residents who reported hearing explosions shortly after 3:00 am. The bullet-riddled bodies of the Lunan and Smith were found at Stow Road in the community shortly after.

Lunan was employed to Solid Agency – the company which manages dancehall acts Bounty Killer, Wayne Marshall, Bling Dawg, Busy Signal, Aidonia and Mavado.

Yesterday head of Solid Agency, Sharon Burke, was beside herself with grief.

“Michael was the life of Solid, we are going to miss him,” she told the Observer.

The police were unable to confirm if Lunan was the victim of a reprisal attack for the double murder of two men, identified as Nyron Edwards and ‘Mexican’ in the community in May of 2004. According to an Observer source, Lunan – who at the time was a strongman in the community – had ordered the men killed after they refused to obey orders issued by him.

“We are looking into a number of motives but he (Lunan) was linked to that double killing. We had a warrant for his arrest in that matter,” said Deputy Superintendent Michael Phipps, crime chief for the St Andrew South Police Division.

Yesterday morning the area was tense, with some residents claiming ignorance of the incident.

“I don’t know about any murder,” one woman said, as she walked briskly along Stow Road.

The double murder brought to six the number of killings reported by the police between Sunday and yesterday morning.

Also listed among the dead is 20-year-old Dwight Senior, also called ‘Chicken’, who was shot by a gunman as he stood with a group of persons at Ambrook Lane about 5:30 pm on Sunday.

Police are also investigating the murder of Kenworth “Kenny Puss” Harris, who was found with his throat slashed and stabbed in an open lot at Palmer’s Cross in Clarendon also on Sunday.

Meanwhile, an unidentified man was chopped to death by an angry mob in Old Harbour, St Catherine after an alleged attempt to rob a resident at gunpoint was thwarted.

Police report that about 4:00 am on Sunday, the man was overpowered by his intended victim who raised an alarm. A mob converged and chopped the man to death. The cops say when they arrived they saw the body with several chop wounds while a home-made firearm with one 9mm round was lying beside the body.

Another unidentified man was also shot and killed in Torrington Park in Kingston on Sunday morning. According to the police, the man who is believed to be in his mid-40s, is of dark complexion, slim and was clad in a khaki shirt, khaki pants and a beige merino.