On Monday night couple were murdered in Clarendon

A new crime wave sweeping the restive Clarendon police division claimed the lives of a couple in Sandy Bay, May Pen Monday night.

With the police still scouring the area for clues in solving this latest homicide, the information is still sketchy.

However, the preliminary investigation is indicating that the couple was not the primary target of the attack.

"The couple is likely to have been killed between 12:45 and 4 a.m.," a senior investigator told our news centre.

The couple's murder, which is the sixth within the last two weeks follows the shooting deaths of a club owner and a shoe vendor in May Pen, both in brazen circumstances.

Murderers also snuffed the lives of a male in Frankfield last week and burned a grandmother to death in Chapelton on Saturday.