The mothers of three murdered young men told last night of their fears that there would be more gang-related killings following the weekend shooting of an 18-year-old.

Marsha Jones, whose student son Shaundae was shot at point blank range outside a nightclub in Dockyard in 2003, said the slaying of Jason Lightbourne in Paget on Sunday morning brought back painful memories for her.

?When I heard, I sat in my car and just cried,? she said. ?I was just ill. I feel for this boy?s family. It?s just like deja vu all over again. When is it going to stop? This is crazy.?

Rochelle Cooper, mother of murdered twins Jahmil and Jahmal, said this weekend?s gun murder and a machete attack on a 19-year-old had left her ?numb?.

Her sons were beaten to death with a baseball bat last March before being dumped down a remote cliff. She saw their killers brought to justice earlier this year in a high-profile Supreme Court case. Kenneth Burgess and Dennis Robinson were sentenced to life in prison after a jury found them guilty of murder.

Mr. Jones, 20, of Smith?s Avenue, Warwick, was killed in the early hours of Sunday, April 27, 2003. His killer has never been caught.

Kenith Clifton Bulford was arrested in Jamaica and extradited to the Island in 2005 in connection with the case but was freed after Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner ruled he had no case to answer on firearms charges.

Ms Jones said she hoped the family of Jason Lightbourne would get ?better results than I did? from the criminal justice system.

?Here we are, three shootings later and still nothing is being done,? she said.

?The people who do this are getting away with it. Somebody else is suffering the way I did. I just hope they get justice, because I never did.

?Three years later, it?s just as fresh as it was, the more so because there is no justice.?

Ms Jones, who has no other children, added: ?When my son first got killed I said if we don?t get a hold of the violence that?s going on it?s going to escalate. Bermuda has got to take its head out of the sand. We have got some serious problems going on.?

Ms Cooper told she regularly offered stark words of warning to youngsters caught up in the ?stupidity? of gang-related violence.

?I say: ?Look where my sons are. You do not want to be like that?.?

The Cooper twins? trial heard her sons were members of the White Wall Crew gang and regularly hung about the Court Street area. Ms Cooper denied during the trial that the twins were constantly getting into trouble.

Asked what she thought of the rising tide of violence that has claimed five shooting victims in 90 days, Ms Cooper said: ?I honestly do not know what to say. I?m more numb than anything.?

She knows most of the victims? families and said her heart went out to the relatives and friends of those injured and killed.

Ms Cooper named the seriously injured machete attack victim as Stefan Burgess. This weekend?s knife attack brings a second tragedy for the family. Stefan?s twin brother, Ryan, died in a road crash in January.

?I watched them grow up,? said Ms Cooper. ?I knew both of them and I?ve known their momma all her life.?

She added: ?All this is stupidness. If you pulled one aside and asked them why they are doing it, they would not know.

?What are they getting from it? These boys are not seeing the age of 20. I do not know what?s going through their minds.?

Ms Cooper, who has two other children, believes the trouble will continue to plague Bermuda ? and reckons retaliatory attacks are now inevitable.

?This shooting (at Ord Road) is only going to open up more wounds and it?s going to be worse than ever. They are not going to tell the Police, they are going to take things into their own hands.

?It?s just going to keep going,? she continued. ?In the meantime, innocent people are getting hurt because it?s not the person they are going after.?

Police needed to act, she added, although she was unsure what steps should be taken to curb the spiralling problem.

Ms Jones called for officers from Bermuda to be sent to big cities in the US for training in gang-related crime.

?Our cops need experience on how to deal with stuff that they haven?t had to deal with. This is out of hand. The streets aren?t safe.?

She also believes that life should mean life for murder, that better witness protection is needed and that corporal punishment should be used more in schools.

?Nobody wants to talk and a lot of people willing to talk are afraid to,? she said. ?They just keep falling like dominoes when it comes to going to court. They are afraid to talk so the perpetrator gets away with murder.?

She said her heart went out to Jason?s family as she was still struggling to cope with Shaundae?s death. ?I wish I could just open my arms to them,? she said. ?It?s still just as real for me. You just keep looking at your front door and waiting for the child to come in.?