A Cara­po man was killed this morn­ing af­ter be­ing lured out of his home by gun­men.

Shamar “Sha­mi” James was shot on the road­way at Uni­ty Lane, Cara­po, Ari­ma, around 6.45 am on April 8.

Re­ports in­di­cate the 32-year-old was asleep when he was awak­ened by some­one call­ing his name – and he emerged in his un­der­wear alone.

It is al­leged that gun­men then opened fire on James who col­lapsed on the road.

As James be­gan crawl­ing on his bel­ly to es­cape his killers, it was re­port­ed the gun­men fol­lowed him and con­tin­ued shoot­ing.

Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers found him ly­ing in a pool of blood.

An as­sort­ment of spent am­mu­ni­tion was found be­tween where James was shot and where he even­tu­al­ly died.