MANCHESTER, Jamaica – It was a bloody Saturday in Manchester as three people were killed in the south-central parish in separate gun attacks.

In the latest incident, 35-year-old Adrian Smikle, a chef of Coleyville near Christiana in Manchester was shot dead in Heartease.

A police report said that at about 10:00 pm, Smikle was at a wake in the community when a gunman pounced on him by jumping over a concrete wall.

Police said the gunman shot Smikle multiple times. He was pronounced dead at hospital.

Just under an hour earlier, 15-year-old Vesteroy Sinclair was shot dead in Turner Top District (near the Manchester/ St Elizabeth border) as he attempted to save his mother during a struggle with gunmen.

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On Saturday afternoon, 49-year-old Ricardo Bennett, a fisherman of Old Harbour, St Catherine was shot by a gunman on Juici Plaza in Mandeville.

He later succumbed at hospital.

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Statistics from the Jamaica Constabulary Force show that up to June 26, Manchester recorded 20 murders compared to 13 for the corresponding period last year.

– Kasey Williams