The St Catherine North Police have released the identities of the two men who were shot and killed at a bar in McCooks Pen, St Catherine, on Thursday night.

They are 21-year-old Theo Bent and Herman "Sheddy" Fearon, both of a McCooks Pen address.

Reports are that minutes after 8 p.m. armed men travelling in a motorcar invaded the bar located along the McCooks Pen main road. It is reported that they robbed patrons of a laptop and a cellphone before opening fire on Bent and Fearon before fleeing the area.

THE STAR understands that the bartender who was reportedly missing and feared dead, returned to the bar after fleeing the scene.