ONE OF JAMAICA's most wanted, Bobby Myers, also called 'Friend Friend', met his end during an intense gun battle with the police yesterday morning at Tewari Crescent, Rose Town, Kingston 12.

Myers was on the run since October 4, 2007, when he was implicated in the deaths of 24-year-old Norval White and 20-year-old Shakira Lacey in Newlands, Portmore.

Reports are that a team of police, comprising detectives from Portmore and the Denham Town CIB, went in search of Myers, who allegedly engaged them in a fierce gun battle when cornered.

The police said they were met with gunfire on entering a house in which the wanted man was holed up.

Police personnel said residents on the scene were remarkably calm after the incident, considering it was a police shooting, some even acknowledging that Myers was a wanted man.

"A woman even remarked that 'him really put up a good battle with the police'," a member of the party told THE STAR.

Myers allegedly fled the Newlands area after the 2007 killings in which Lacey's home was fire-bombed in Beverly Flat.

Police reported then that at 11 p.m. gunmen set the house on fire while searching for a rival gang member.

Lacey attempted to flee but was pinned down by gunfire and her body later discovered in the burnt-out house.

It was also reported that the men proceeded to Newlands Road where they robbed a bar and opened fire on patrons, hitting White and another man. White later succumbed to his injuries at the Spanish Town Hospital, but the other man survived.