The mother of Kenwandee Robinson yesterday spoke of her horror at another fatal shooting and urged those responsible to "stop fighting".

"It's like I'm reliving my son's death all over again," said Karon Robinson.

"No mother wants to feel the way I do, I don't wish this on anyone.

"It still hurts. I think about Kenwandee every day. I just wish he would walk through this door right now. I'm just wishing and hoping, but it's never going to happen."

Mr. Robinson, 27, also known as 'Wheels', was killed in a drive-by shooting in St. Monica's Road on May 22.

Ms Robinson said her son was waiting to pick her up from her job as a cashier at People's Pharmacy when he was hit by gunfire from two men on a motorbike.

Yesterday she was reeling from the second shooting death in the neighbourhood, that of her son's friend Kumi Harford.

Mr. Harford was shot as he drove home from a party in the early hours of Saturday morning. The 30-year-old was married to Rachel and had a two-year-old son, Knaledge.

"Kumi was like family to us," said Ms Robinson, 50. "He was friends with my son and came every day to talk.

"I feel angry, I am hurt, I just feel numb. I'm just so tired of all of this. I want it to stop."

Ms Robinson said she believes the people responsible for Mr. Harford's death are the same men who killed her son.

"I think it's the same ones," she said. "As I understand it, it was the same gun which killed my son, that's the street talk.

"I am really angry at them. They need help."

Asked how she felt at talk that the recent spate of shootings were provoked by retaliatory attacks for the death of her son, she said: "I wish they wouldn't. I wish they would just stop.

"That's all I want, everyone to stop fighting. We are a small Island and everyone is practically related. This all has to stop.

"I don't want another mother to feel the way I feel. It's awful.

"But at the moment it keeps going on and on, like it's not going to end. I'm tired of crying, I've cried until I can't cry anymore."

Wendy Simmons-Baker, the mother of Mr. Robinson's girlfriend Laneh Simmons, said the couple's son LaNaiye still "misses his dad".

"He's a typical three-year-old boy but misses him very much," she said.

"He says, 'It's my daddy up in the sky'. And as soon as it gets dark he will run outside and say, 'Night daddy'. It's rough, it's really rough."

Ms Simmons-Baker, a cashier, said: "Kumi was also always with his son. He don't need to grow up knowing his daddy was shot for no reason. It's very sad, two children growing up without a father."

Mr. Harford's mother was to upset to talk yesterday. However, his aunt said: "Kumi was a beautiful man and a good father. He was just coming home from a party that night and his life was taken away."

The aunt, who did not wish to be named, said she felt her nephew was the victim of a random shooting.

"The people who did this, they were just waiting for anybody from this area to come through there," she said.

"He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Yesterday other women who have lost sons to gun crime also spoke out about the rise in violence.

Marsha Jones, the mother of Shaundae Jones who was shot and killed in 2003, described the shootings as "pathetic".

"I don't know what to say. This is outrageous," she said.

"I am so distraught about it. I don't know what the Police could do, but people aren't talking.

"People need a reality check. Some of these people need to be off the streets. It's pathetic.

"We are losing young black men. It's awful."

Shahidah Abdur-Rahim, mother of Aquil Richardson, who was shot and killed in 2007, said: "I am concerned that the rise in gun violence has increased since my son's death in December 2007.

"At first when I heard the news about this latest victim I had no reaction, as it seems like the norm these days.

'However, I do feel sorry for the loved ones left behind to pick up the pieces. I feel sorry for the young people who are now forced to grow up without parents due to this increase in violent crime."