RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

 rad­hi­ca­s­ookraj@guardian.co.tt

Res­i­dents of Sum Sum Hill, Clax­ton Bay, hid in their homes as a vol­ley of gun­fire rang out, leav­ing a man dead on Fri­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve Paul Kirk, 33, of St John’s Road, Clax­ton Bay, was shot mul­ti­ple times at point-blank range. Kirk, 33, was lim­ing at Sum Sum Hill when he was am­bushed around 10.35 pm.

Res­i­dent Andy Nes­bitt told po­lice he was at home when the gun­shots rang out.

When Nes­bitt made checks, he saw Kirk ly­ing mo­tion­less at the rear of Nes­bitt’s house. Kirk was dressed in a white and gold-coloured shirt and three-quar­ter white pants.

A pair of white sneak­ers was near­by. The body was viewed by Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Ram­rat­tan, who or­dered it re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors col­lect­ed cru­cial pieces of ev­i­dence at the crime scene, in­clud­ing 18 spent 9 mm shells, one live round, and a pro­jec­tile.

Po­lice said they have no mo­tive as yet for the mur­der.

Of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion in­clud­ing Ag In­sp Ram­saran and Sgt Reid, along with Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three Of­fi­cers led by Cpl Ra­moutar are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the mur­der can con­tact Crime Stop­pers at 800-TIPS.