SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

A 40-year-old man named Gary Grif­fith—not the for­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er—was shot dead on Tues­day night in Tarou­ba.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the shoot­ing oc­curred around 10:55 pm on Derek Mur­ray Dri­ve, a short dis­tance away from Grif­fith’s home on the same street.

An anony­mous in­for­mant called the E999 Po­lice Com­mand Cen­tre af­ter hear­ing a loud ex­plo­sion in the area.

First re­spon­ders from the Mara­bel­la Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rived at the scene and found Grif­fith ly­ing on the road­way with gun­shot wounds.

In­quiries re­vealed that Grif­fith was walk­ing north along Derek Mur­ray Dri­ve when a white Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled along­side him and its oc­cu­pants fired mul­ti­ple shots be­fore flee­ing the scene.

Three spent 9-mil­lime­tre cas­ings marked “PAC 9mm Luger” were re­cov­ered at the scene.

Grif­fith was trans­port­ed to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead at 11:29 pm.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.