A 32-year-old man was gunned down in La Hor­quet­ta on Mon­day night, in an in­ci­dent which po­lice sus­pect may be drug-re­lat­ed.

The vic­tim, iden­ti­fied as Dy­lon Mar­shall, al­so known as “Dy­lo,” of Phase 5, La Hor­quet­ta, was found dead at 11.25 pm on Tony Govia Av­enue, Phase 6, La Hor­quet­ta.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, first re­spon­ders from the La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion were on mo­bile pa­trol when they re­ceived a re­port of loud ex­plo­sions in the area at 11.20 pm. Up­on ar­rival, of­fi­cers found Mar­shall ly­ing face down on the road­way, his feet rest­ing on a black bi­cy­cle. He had mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds and showed no signs of life.

Mar­shall was de­scribed as be­ing of African de­scent, medi­um-built, about five feet sev­en inch­es tall, with a short corn­row hair­style. He was wear­ing light blue three-quar­ter jeans and a grey long-sleeved jer­sey at the time of the in­ci­dent.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors say re­ports sug­gest Mar­shall was rid­ing his bi­cy­cle west along Tony Govia Av­enue at 11 pm when sev­er­al gun­shots were heard. Wit­ness­es re­port­ed­ly saw an uniden­ti­fied sus­pect flee­ing the scene be­fore Mar­shall was dis­cov­ered mo­tion­less in the road.

The area was im­me­di­ate­ly cor­doned off and crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­trieved mul­ti­ple spent shell cas­ings of var­i­ous brands, along with pro­jec­tiles. Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer, Dr Men­doza, ex­am­ined the body, made a pro­nounce­ment, and or­dered its re­moval to the fu­ner­al home pend­ing a post-mortem at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Se­nior of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing ASP Pitt and Sgt St Rose, vis­it­ed the scene, along with Homi­cide of­fi­cers and mem­bers of the Spe­cial Ev­i­dence Re­cov­ery Unit. In­ves­ti­ga­tions led by PC France are on­go­ing.