Rhon­dor Dowlat

A 29-year-old man of Arou­ca was shot dead yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 11.40 am Dil­lon Lo­gan was at Manoram Road, Five Rivers, Arou­ca off Crown Street, when he was shot mul­ti­ple times about his body.

Po­lice said eye­wit­ness­es told them Lo­gan was sit­ting be­hind a house with work­ers of a Cepep gang when a man, be­lieved to be of Venezue­lan na­tion­al­i­ty, walked up to him and shot him sev­er­al times. The gun­man then es­caped.

Lo­gan at­tempt­ed to run a short dis­tance away but col­lapsed in front of a house where he died. Lo­gan lived at LP#52 Williams Trace, Five Rivers, Arou­ca.

Po­lice re­cov­ered nine 9mm spent shells on the scene.

The body was viewed by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer and re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre where an au­top­sy will be con­duct­ed to­day (Tues­day).

Po­lice are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing that has brought the mur­der toll to 39 for the year thus far.

Of­fi­cers from the North­ern Di­vi­sion and Homi­cide Re­gion 2 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.