?As she slept in her Mor­vant home, 51-year-old Jacque­line Jones was mur­dered by gun­men who walked up to her bed­room win­dow and opened fire ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. Jones was asleep on her bed with her hus­band 54-year-old Cos­mos Mod­este at their home at Eleventh Av­enue. Mod­este told po­lice around 2.15 am he heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions fol­low­ing which he felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion in his leg. When he checked, he dis­cov­ered his wife had been hit sev­er­al times by bul­lets.

Both worked at the San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion. Jones' killing has sparked anger among her rel­a­tives who claimed an EHS am­bu­lance took al­most two hours to rush the bleed­ing woman to the hos­pi­tal. Speak­ing at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James yes­ter­day, a close rel­a­tive, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, said by the time the am­bu­lance ar­rived, Jones was al­ready dead. De­scrib­ing the killing as "bru­tal" and "use­less" the rel­a­tive al­so crit­i­cised the po­lice, say­ing crim­i­nals were the ones with re­al pow­er.

"The ban­dits are the ones in charge and they are show­ing the po­lice that. They are the boss­es not the po­lice. "The ban­dits are the ones who work­ing, not the po­lice," the rel­a­tive charged. The rel­a­tive de­nied the killing was linked to gang war­fare in the Mor­vant dis­trict. "They were not in drugs, not in guns, noth­ing. "They were hum­ble, hard­work­ing peo­ple," the rel­a­tive said.

(GK)