Enough is enough say community leaders in the wake of the Island's 14th shooting in six months.

Kumi Harford was gunned down at 5 a.m. on Saturday as he sat in a car on St. Monica's Road.

It was six days before his 31st birthday.

No arrests have been made. It is understood the shooting was gang-related.

"That young man, I know him personally," said youth worker Carlton Simmons. "We went to school together, we graduated together. Less than a week ago I went looking for him. I ended up speaking to his brother and now he's dead. I think an opportunity has been missed, but my condolences go out to the family.

"Two things need to happen. One, community leaders need to reach out [and] come up with a solution, be open to all manner of suggestions. Two, the community has to brace themselves for more violence. I have been having conversations all weekend. There will be more violence. We can say 'enough is enough' but there will be more. I am urging the leaders to reach out to people."

Government MP Dale Butler said he is still trying to digest what happened: "When there is little or no discipline and basic values and institutions are ignored, you reap what you sow."

Assistant coordinator of the Mirrors programme Tory Darrell said there was no easy solution.

"One thing I can say is [there needs to be] community involvement in the neighbourhoods, not just having it be Government programmes but actual communities starting up programmes to provide an alternative outlet for young people to get involved, versus there not being any other solutions.

"That's one of the biggest things that I can see in the community in terms of programming, in terms of looking out for one another. There used to be a sense of community involvement. Maybe it's not necessary to go back to programmes of the past [but] the community sense that existed, taking that and investing new and modern options. Not everybody wants to be caught up in violence. There's a perception that all of them are into that. There are a lot that are not. They're looking for someplace else to go."

He continued: "The Police are doing what they can. It's funny because they kind of have a lose-lose situation. If they crack down too much people start to say it's a Police state, but if they don't crack down enough then they get blamed for the rise in violence."

Pastor Leroy Bean, founder of anti-gang group CARTEL, said we all need to contribute.

"One thing that's been kind of pressing heavy on me is that on one side the Police are asking the community to work together with the process of things, but are they being shielded and guided and protected? Yesterday I was at a gas station and a fight broke out. No one wanted to stop the fight. No one wanted to get the Police involved.

"I still think it's going to take all of us. Government definitely has to be involved, not only from a punitive standpoint but also financial. They keep talking about an increased Police presence. There's no one answer. There has to be a broad community participation."