Two mur­ders on Thurs­day night in Pe­tit Val­ley and San­ta Cruz brought the coun­try’s mur­der count to 110, com­pared to 157 for the same pe­ri­od last year.

In the first killing around 5 pm on April 10, Omari St Rose, 31, of Spar­row Dri­ve, Sime­on Road, Pe­tit Val­ley, was shot at his home.

Po­lice said he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the St James In­fir­mary 20 min­utes lat­er.

Of­fi­cers were alert­ed to the shoot­ing and ar­rived to find St Rose’s fam­i­ly rush­ing him to the hos­pi­tal, so the law­men trans­ferred the bleed­ing man to their ve­hi­cle and sped off.

St Rose, who was al­so called One Foot; Big Foot and Foots was shot mul­ti­ple times as he stood in­side his garage.

Sev­en 9 mm spent shells were re­cov­ered at the scene.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, which oc­curred around 7.40 pm, Rawle Jor­dan, al­so called Chub­by, 42, of Sam Bou­caud, Up­per San­ta Cruz, was killed while on du­ty at the WASA Treat­ment Plant, Chiq­ui­to Street, Up­per San­ta Cruz.

Po­lice said res­i­dents con­tact­ed of­fi­cers af­ter gun­shots were heard com­ing from the fa­cil­i­ty, and they ar­rived to find the watch­man ly­ing on the ground, bleed­ing from wounds to the left shoul­der, right arm and up­per right chest.

Po­lice said a to­tal of 15 spent shells of vary­ing cal­i­bre were re­cov­ered at the scene.

Two masked men were re­port­ed­ly seen run­ning away from the treat­ment plant.