MONTEGO BAY, St James — The names are different but the story is the same: Grieving relatives of men fatally felled by bullets from cops’ guns bitterly accuse lawmen of using excessive force, while the official police report says there was a shootout. Wednesday morning’s incident on the outskirts of Montego Bay was only unusual because of the number of men — four — who were shot dead.

“I don’t know what to tell my baby seh,” a weeping Tameika Evans told the Jamaica Observer.

Her two-year-old son, unaware that his father Jahmar Ashman was dead, enjoyed candy as the police maintained a barrier around the scene of the incident.