DESPITE the desperate pleas of 68-year-old Marjorie Miles, who grovelled and begged for her life, gunmen pumped several bullets into her body, minutes after shooting dead her 70-year-old common-law husband, Bromley Walker.

The couple was murdered at their Higholborn Street home in a section of the Parade Gardens community known as ‘Southside’ in downtown Kingston minutes after six yesterday morning.

“The lady inna the house a cry out ‘Don’t kill me, don’t kill me’ and them still kill her. The man sit down at his doorway and them come kill him. What two old, old people like that could do for this to happen to them,” a female resident told the Observer yesterday. “We want a little help around here man.”

The double murder occurred hours after gunmen invaded premises on nearby Gold Street and shot dead 37-year-old Carla Thomas as she slept.

“She was in her house and them come into the yard, [dim] the bulb and go into her house and give her one-gunshot in her head,” an onlooker said.

The killing of the three brings to six the number of people killed in the Parade Gardens community since Friday. Three others have also been shot and injured.

On Tuesday morning, gunmen crept up on 56-year-old Kenneth Robinson, also called ‘Shaggy’ and shot him dead as he stood in front of a shop at Laws Street. About two hours later gunmen murdered Derrick ‘Bull Dog’ Grey as he walked along Georges Lane. Last Sunday gunmen shot and killed Marcia Newby after she had dropped off her child at school. Newby was shot in the back, police say.

Parade Gardens is located just across from the Kingston Central police divisional headquarters but is a traditionally volatile community divided into two areas known as ‘Tel Aviv’ and ‘Southside’.

Police said yesterday that the latest killings were a continuation of a gang violence between residents of both sections of the divided community.

“Everyone of them, down to the children, know who the killers are but no one will come forward,” a policeman said yesterday..