The police have identified the three people who were killed on Thursday night at Upper King Street in Kingston.

They are:

• Twenty-one-year-old Tattiana Brown of West Street, Kingston;
• Twenty-two-year-old Deanna Green of Law Street, Kingston; and
• Thirty-seven-year-old Devroy Peart of Mitchell Drive, Portmore, St Catherine.

Reports from the Central police are that about 10:40pm, Brown, Green and Peart were travelling in a Honda motor car when they were intercepted by men in another vehicle.

The assailants alighted from the vehicle and opened gunfire hitting the occupants of the Honda motor car. 

The police were summoned and all three persons were seen with multiple gunshot wounds. They were taken to hospital where their deaths were confirmed. 

Lawmen from the Major Investigations Division are probing the triple murder.