Damion Hamilton, the suspected attacker who slew two policemen and injured three others in fierce gunfights last Friday, has been called a cold-hearted killer by residents of two St Catherine communities where he grew up or lived in the past.

Hamilton, residents of Riversdale and Williamsfield told The Gleaner, disembowelled his older brother more than a decade ago.

The 39-year-old Hamilton was slain in Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew, three days ago by police officers who were on the hunt for the killers of Detective Corporal Dane Biggs and Constable Decardo Hylton, who were attacked in Horizon Park, St Catherine, early Friday morning.

Another resident who shared that he and Hamilton’s brother had been close friends chided Hamilton for unleashing the deadly attack on the police.

A one day a man me know from Kingston a pass through and ask me if me know him (Hamilton), and I told him me just see him in the area, and the man tell me say him pretty ‘warm’ (bad man) and we must be careful” said the resident, who asked not to be named in fear that cronies of Hamilton’s may act in vengeance.