Po­lice fa­tal­ly shot a man, de­scribed as a con­tract killer, dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing shoot-out yes­ter­day in Mara­bel­la.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, Akeem Kingsale, 31, al­so known as Forty, was be­lieved to be a hired killer in the south­ern re­gion and was want­ed in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple vi­o­lent crimes. 

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit, un­der the com­mand of Sgt Seecha­ran and Cpl Hug­gins, act­ing on cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion, ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at an apart­ment com­plex lo­cat­ed on Ba­too Av­enue around 1 am yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said Kingsale be­gan fir­ing at the of­fi­cers, who re­turned fire, and dur­ing the ex­change, Kingsale was fa­tal­ly wound­ed. He died at the scene.  

Of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly re­cov­ered a firearm and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the apart­ment. 

Kingsale, ac­cord­ing to the po­lice, was a per­son of in­ter­est in sev­er­al se­ri­ous in­ves­ti­ga­tions, in­clud­ing mul­ti­ple shoot­ings, rob­beries, and wound­ings. 

In a state­ment to the me­dia, the TTPS reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of all cit­i­zens and as­sured that it will con­tin­ue to act on in­tel­li­gence to pur­sue those in­volved in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.