Luck and quick action by residents prevented more deaths in Cherry Tree Lane assault

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With the motive for the attack still moot and the brutality of the assailants still vivid, Cherry Tree Lane remained tense, even with the area teeming with the security forces. Eighteen persons were shot, eight of them dead, including a seven-year-old boy, in the two-location onslaught, marking an unprecedented evil for a country that has seen a slew of multiple killings and shootings in recent history with Clarendon among the parishes most noted for them.


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