Police work to clear a section of the Lacovia main road which was blocked by residents on Monday in protest against the police killings of three men in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland, on Friday night. - Launtia Cuff

Commuters using the Lacovia main road in St Elizabeth were on Monday inconvenienced after residents blocked the road for approximately five miles in protest against the police killings of three men in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland, on Friday.

The road, which was blocked from early Monday morning, was impassable for several hours until police were able to clear the road sometime after 1 p.m.

This was the second protest against the killings, as residents in Westmorel-and blocked sections of the Shrews-bury and Petersfield main roads on Saturday.

Andrew Brydson, his brother Tristan Brydson and their cousin Kingsley Green were originally from the Lacovia district. Iris Nish, the grandmother of the Brydson brothers, and Green's aunt said they had moved to Westmoreland for better job prospects.

"They all grow up around the district there, since they get big they said they looking a job," she said.

upstanding citizens

The Lacovia residents, who were unsatisfied with the progress of investigations thus far, blocked the road as they claimed the young men who were upstanding citizens from a Christian home were killed in cold blood.

One cousin of the men, who asked not to be named, echoed the cries of the residents.

"If they were gunmen and you shoot them on the spot, why didn't you leave them there until INDECOM come, and the other rest of the investigators came?" the man said.

The mother of the two brothers who had reportedly just left the island some days ago after coming back to bury their father was said to be distraught by the news of the deaths.

Meanwhile, Nish, 83, who has a number of age-related illnesses, said the news of the men's death has affected her badly, especially considering that her grandsons had lived with her for most of their childhood, and her nephew had lived just down the road from her.

"I tell you say I weak. Stressful! Mournful! Every minute me cry. It get me pressure up and me nervous, mi no like remember it. Me pray, and really God is keeping me," Nish said.