Mark Beckford, Staff Reporter

Residents from communities surrounding East Street, central Kingston, gather at the fence of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security after a murder on the premises yesterday morning. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

There were more daring and violent attacks yesterday, which claimed two lives.

A large crowd descended on the Ministry's of Labour and Social Security Overseas Employment Office in Kingston yesterday morning after news spread that a man had been shot dead on the East Street compound.

Ricardo Green, 38, of an East Street address, was killed about 11 a.m. at his cookshop.

He was shot in his head, neck and back.

Shortly after, scores of residents and workers peered through openings in steel frames and climbed the concrete walls of the institution to get a glimpse of the body, which was slumped against a bench on the premises.

Tight-lipped

But the residents of East Street were tight-lipped about the incident. A woman who identified herself as Green's sister wept in a corner.

She could not fathom why someone would kill the father of one daughter.

In Ocho Rios, St Ann, there was another daylight murder.

Gilbert Davis, 52, a security guard, was killed and an undetermined sum of money stolen from him by gunmen.

According to police reports, the guard was held up and robbed in the car park of the Island Village Shopping Centre about 10 a.m.

The men also took the vehicle in which he was travelling.

School scare

Meanwhile, Pembroke Hall Primary School received a scare after several explosions were heard at the school sending students and teachers scuttling for cover.

The gunshots were heard coming from the direction of the playing field, some 50 metres away from the main building of the school. Principal Norma McNeil said this is intolerable.

"You have children here who are really traumatised and it has really affected them."

Gleaner correspondent Devon Evans contributed to this story.