HEARTLESS DETAILS! Criminals execute 3 teenaged boys, 35-year-old man in Clarendon.... Alex Turner (16 y-o), Ricardo Briscoe (14), Raymond Ginas (14)..."This is an attack on the future, it is an attack on the innocent," said Williams, who added that he was very concerned about the growing number of attacks against children in the country....a $500,000 reward for information that could help them prosecute the killers.

BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com  Friday, April 17, 2015    

GUNMEN Wednesday descended to new level of depravity when they held up three teenaged boys and a 35-year-old man, told them to lie face down and executed them in the quiet Hayes community in Clarendon.

‘Oh God, help me go through this,’ cries Ann Marie Briscoe,
whose 14-year-old son, Ricardo Briscoe, was among
 the murder victims. The pain of the brutal murder of three
 teenaged boys and a 35-year-old man is too much
 for these residents of Moneymusk Housing Scheme in
Hayes, Clarendon. (PHOTOS: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)

The brutal, heartless murders were committed at approximately 9:30 pm in the Moneymusk Housing Scheme, triggering islandwide shock and anger, and an immediate response from the police high command which launched an islandwide manhunt for the killers that has so far resulted in the capture of two suspects from the parish.

But even as the authorities were preparing to question the suspects they posted a $500,000 reward for information that could help them prosecute the killers.

"I want to assure you that we will leave no stone unturned in our search for those responsible," Police Commissioner Carl Williams said as he visited the community and reached out to family members of the victims.

Painful times

The words of encouragement from the police top brass were however not enough to silence the grieving mothers, whose cries could be heard on approach to the community, where residents mourned 14-year-old Raymond Givans, a student of Vere Technical High School; Ricardo Briscoe, also 14 years old, of Garvey Maceo High School; 16-year-old Alex Turner, who attended Central High; and Marquis Hamilton, a 35-year-old accounts clerk at the Sugar Company of Jamaica.

The Constabulary Communication Network reported that the three boys were walking along the road when they were pounced upon by two armed men who forced them onto Hamilton's premises where they were gunned down.

Police yesterday theorised that robbery was the motive. However, residents gave another story.

The victims (from left) Alex Turner, Ricardo Briscoe,
Raymond Gibbons.

The resident said the boys were walking home from a gym when they stopped in a section of the housing scheme to tap into an unsecured wireless Internet service.

"While they were sitting there, men came in the area and held them up at gunpoint," said one resident.

Hamilton, who was sitting close to his house, was also held. The four were ordered to lie face down on the ground.

Minutes later the unthinkable happened. Sounds of gunfire echoed throughout the community. One source from the community said the gunmen, after carrying out the dastardly act, started running away but returned to the spot to ensure that the victims were dead. more