UPDATE: St Andrew business couple slaughtered in Half Way Tree

It seemed like a routine evening for common-law spouses Helen McGoo and Gordon Davis as closing up their place of business signalled the end of the work day.

Little did the couple know that at around 7:45 pm on Monday, May 30, their lives would have been snuffed out at the hands of a lone gunman as shots rang out in the usually busy South Dale Plaza, off Constant Spring Road, in Half Way Tree, St Andrew.

In the aftermath, the car the two were about to travel in to their home in Hope Pastures, was reportedly peppered with bullet holes as both Davis and McGoo had been hit multiple times in the upper body area; the gunman had escaped.

In what was a mere few seconds after the close of business, McGoo, 50, and 60-year-old Davis were being rushed to hospital where they were later pronounced dead.

No motive has yet been established for the brutal killings.