In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to three in­ci­dents where a to­tal of five men were killed dur­ing the pe­ri­od Thurs­day night in­to Fri­day morn­ing in San­gre Grande, Ari­ma and St Ann’s.

Three men were gunned down in San­gre Grande on Thurs­day night.
The first triple mur­der for the year oc­curred along the To­co Main Road, San­gre Grande, at about 9.30 pm.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the bod­ies of two men were found seat­ed in the dri­ver’s seat and front seat of a ve­hi­cle. The third vic­tim was found dead ly­ing on the ground out­side of the ve­hi­cle. The vic­tims were iden­ti­fied as Jher­mac Quashie, 25, Ter­rance Nixon, 29, and Skeete Sanchez, 28.

Po­lice said all three men were shot mul­ti­ple times about their bod­ies. There were sev­er­al bul­let holes to the front wind­screen and side win­dows as well which po­lice sug­gests that the men while in the car were am­bushed by gun­men with high pow­ered weapons who opened fire on them.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing as there is no mo­tive yet for the killings.

In an­oth­er un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, a man iden­ti­fied as Jesse Her­nan­dez, 34, of John Street, Mt Zion Road in Ari­ma was shot al­so on Thurs­day night. Po­lice said at about 9 pm Her­nan­dez was in his back yard when a white wag­on stopped in front of his house. Two gun­men ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and ran in­to the yard straight to the back yard where Her­nan­dez was stand­ing and opened fire on him. The men then re­turned to the wag­on and drove off.

Her­nan­dez was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal where he was med­ical­ly at­tend­ed to but lat­er died. In an­oth­er un­re­lat­ed killing, a 60-year-old man was stabbed to death dur­ing a fight in St Ann’s ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing. That vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as David Joseph.

Po­lice said at about 3.45 am Joseph was at St Anns Road near Syden­han Av­enue when he got in­to a fight with a man who was seen wear­ing a black and white hood­ie.
Dur­ing the fight Joseph was stabbed sev­er­al times. The at­tack­er fled the scene.
Joseph at­tempt­ed to run but col­laps­es on the ground near a fruit stall where he died.
Res­i­dents sub­se­quent­ly called in the po­lice.

Re­porter: Rhon­dor Dowlat