A con­struc­tion work­er has to­day be­come the coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tim.

Around 9 am, Jer­ron Dou­glas, 19, from Barataria, was shov­el­ling sand at a con­struc­tion site near his home when three masked men came up to him and shot him mul­ti­ple times.

T&T Guardian was in­formed that Dou­glas lived on­ly a few hous­es away from his job site, and the po­lice did not be­lieve that he was in­volved in any crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Po­lice are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.