Detectives assigned to the Area 3 Major Investigation Division are probing the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a man and a woman and the injuring of another by unknown assailants on Thursday, September 9.

Dead are 47-year-old Cleverton Brown otherwise called ‘Budda’, and Beverley Pinnock, both of the Gayle Housing Scheme, in Lionel Town, Clarendon.

Reports are that about 6:25pm, Brown, Pinnock and another woman were among a group of people sitting in their yard when gunmen travelling in a motor car opened fire hitting them.

The police were alerted and they were taken to hospital where Brown and Pinnock were pronounced dead and the other woman was admitted for treatment.