IN JAMAICA: A five-year-old girl child was yesterday shot and injured by gunmen along Drummond Street in West Kingston....12-year-old Kawayne McAnuff was shot and killed by gunmen in the constituency earlier this month.

Thursday, April 17, 2014    

A five-year-old child was yesterday shot and injured by gunmen in West Kingston.

The child was one of three people injured when armed thugs opened fire along Drummond Street in the city’s west end.

“The reports we receive are that at about 9:00 am a father and his five-year-old daughter were walking along the road when thugs carried out the attack,” a police source said.

Twelve-year-old Kawayne ‘Timo’ McNuff who
 was killed by gunmen Friday night.

However, police theorise that the child and her father were ‘at the wrong place at the wrong time’ as the attack was aimed at another man who was walking along the road.

“The father, while walking along the road, heard explosions and, in an attempt to protect his daughter, picked up the child and ran,” said one police source.

The man, the source said, later realised that the child was shot in her back. He was shot in the leg. The man was treated at hospital and the child admitted.

The third man, who was said to be the intended target of the criminals, was also admitted to hospital. He was said to be in a critical condition.

The incident has triggered new tensions in the area as it happened a day after the security team assigned to Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie was attacked by gunmen on North Street, just outside a funeral parlour where the MP was finalising burial arrangements for 12-year-old Kawayne McAnuff.

Kawayne was shot and killed by gunmen in the constituency earlier this month. more