The police are continuing their investigations into the shooting death of three men on New Lincoln Avenue, Kingston 5 Friday night.

This as four men were shot, three fatally by unknown assailants.

Dead are 55-year-old Randolph McBean, 41-year-old Donville Charlton both of Lincoln Crescent, Kingston 5 and 38-year-old Barrington Phillips a contractor of Berwick Road, Kingston 13.

Reports from the Major Investigations Division, are that about 7:21 p.m., McBean, Charlton, Phillips and the other man were among a group of people purchasing meals when they were pounced upon by gunmen travelling in a Mazda motor car who opened fire hitting them.

The police were alerted and they were taken to hospital where McBean, Charlton and Phillips were pronounced dead and the other man was admitted for treatment.

The other people escaped unhurt.