ON the Easter weekend commemorating the death of Christ, gunmen shot at least five persons, killing four, in sections of the Corporate Area, St Catherine, and St James.

Police listed the dead persons as Dwayne Douglas, a taxi operator of Seaview Gardens in Kingston; Tyrone Hamilton, 22, of Waterford, St Catherine; Christopher Stewart, 35, of Mountain View Avenue; and an unidentified man.

The cops said a 68-year-old woman was also hospitalised after she was struck by gunmen’s bullet in Waterford on Good Friday.

The incidents drew the ire of the police, who say they are left flat-footed by the unwillingness of members of the public to co-operate with investigations.

“Nobody ever see anything yet, that is the part I can’t understand,” lamented an officer from the Major Investigation Taskforce (MIT), after processing the bullet-riddled motor car in which Douglas and the unidentified man lay dead on Tavern Drive in Papine, St Andrew, Saturday evening.

“You can’t tell me that every officer in the force is so corrupt that nobody don’t want to call and say anything. Nothing can go like that. The country really gone,” the policeman said.

On the plus side, police reported they had removed three illegal firearms and a quantity of marijuana from the nation’s streets. Two alleged wanted men — 32-year-old Richard Lawn, otherwise called ‘Richie Blacks’ and Anthony Christie, 26, otherwise called ‘Bolo’– were fatally shot, and a 48-year-old man was arrested by members of the Flying Squad for possession of an illegal weapon and the weed on Saturday.

Lawn and Christie were killed on Friday after they allegedly engaged officers in separate gunfights in Rosemount Meadows and Glendevon, St James, respectively, the police said.