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Fri Jun 15, 2007
Woodford Park tense after politically motivated shooting incident
A tense calm is lingering over Woodford Park in South East St. Andrew in the aftermath of the shooting of four Jamaica Labour Party supporters in the community Thursday night.
Three of the four remain in hospital while the other was treated and released.
The four were injured when a bus transporting persons to a JLP meeting in Swallowfield was shot up on Anderson Road.
The police have confirmed the incident.
JLP candidate Joan Gordon Webley who convened Thursday night's meeting told the RJR News Centre what she learnt of the incident from her supporters.
“Some of my supporters from Woodford Park got on a bus to come across to the meeting I was having and they were pounced upon, in that they went to pick up some people at the bottom of Anderson Road and on their way up passed an area and some people came into the road and bent down like they were picking up something. It was something of an ambush style. When the bus slowed down bullets rained in,” said Mrs. Gordon Webley.
But PNP supporters are suggesting that the four were shot accidently by other JLP supporters after pandemonium broke out in the bus when the first in a series of gunfire rang out.
In the meantime, Mrs. Gordon Webley is appealing for calm.
“I went to the area last night, in fact I left there after three this morning and I was back here at five am this morning appealing to the people for calm. We don’t want any of this to happen and I am just hoping above all hope that people will not retaliate but in recent times we have heard that people have come from outside the area and joined forces with those in the area,” she said.
It is understood that both JLP and PNP campaign teams are in the area in a bid to avert reprisals.
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