By Dwayne Mcleod, Staff Reporter

Police are theorising that the fatal shooting of a man in Clarendon on Tuesday night is a reprisal attack for the brutal slaying of five persons earlier that day.

Dead is 56-year-old farmer Leebert Brown, otherwise called 'Lurch', of Downer district in the parish.

Police reports are that at about 9:30 p.m., Brown and his 14-year-old son were asleep at home when armed men kicked in his door and proceeded to open fire, hitting him several times.

His son managed to escape through a room window but Brown died on the spot.

The attack occurred a few miles from where the five persons were killed.

Forty-three-year-old Lurline Lewis; her 21-year-old son Shamar Davis; 46-year-old Delora Green, her common-law husband, 33-year-old Daniel Parkinson; and 48-year-old Delroy Riley were killed by gunmen who reportedly invaded their homes.

The police theorise that Davis was the main target of that attack because he was allegedly found with an illegal weapon.