Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

An ear­ly morn­ing shoot­ing in San Raphael led to the death of a 60-year-old man yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers were on pa­trol near San Raphael Junc­tion, when they were flagged down by res­i­dents who told them that a man had been shot near­by.

On reach­ing the area, po­lice found Mc­Don­ald LeBlanc bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

Po­lice took LeBlanc to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal, where he was de­clared dead at around 2.05 am.

Po­lice found three spent 9mm shells at the scene.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, hours lat­er, LeBlanc’s rel­a­tives said while they were still un­clear over the mo­tive of the mur­der, they did not think it was a rob­bery and sus­pect it may be re­lat­ed to a dis­pute LeBlanc had, al­though they could not di­vulge any de­tails.

“Yea, he com­plained about peo­ple com­ing around him and threat­en­ing him. It has been go­ing on for about three years now,” one rel­a­tive said.

“He was dis­mis­sive about it. He didn’t take it se­ri­ous­ly, but the oth­er per­son may have been tak­ing it se­ri­ous­ly. At least that’s what we think.”

The rel­a­tive said LeBlanc’s mur­der was dif­fi­cult to ac­cept.

“Like me ain’t even be­lieve it as yet be­cause I woke up this morn­ing and I think­ing it was like a dream,” the fam­i­ly mem­ber said.

The rel­a­tives said LeBlanc was a fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed per­son who en­joyed beach limes.

They said he sup­port­ed him­self ear­li­er in life as a fast food de­liv­ery dri­ver.

Po­lice from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.