A fa­ther of sev­en died in an ac­ci­dent while on his way to his Clax­ton Bay home on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. An­tho­ny Fran­cois, 57, who worked in the re­frig­er­a­tion de­part­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, died at the scene. Po­lice be­lieve that he may have been speed­ing. Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, around 3.30 am, Fran­cois was dri­ving his blue Nis­san AD sta­tion wag­on north along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way. As he ap­proached the Macaulay Over­pass, Fran­cois lost con­trol of his wag­on which ran off the road­way and flipped sev­er­al times. Fran­cois was thrown from the ve­hi­cle. His ve­hi­cle end­ed up on the Macaulay Ex­ten­sion Road which runs par­al­lel to the high­way. When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed his For­res Park Road home yes­ter­day, his wife was not at home. A rel­a­tive said Fran­cois was re­turn­ing home from Gas­par­il­lo, but de­clined to give any oth­er in­for­ma­tion. Cpl Seer­am of the St Mar­garet's Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

2 in hos­pi­tal af­ter El So­cor­ro shoot­ing

A shoot­ing on Fri­day night in El So­cor­ro has left two men hos­pi­talised.

Around 8.45 pm on June 28 Khadeem Loo­by, 19, of Mo­hammed Trace, San Juan and Oma­li Nurse, 15, of Jo­jo Lane, El So­cor­ro, were both stand­ing along Shakir Trace in the vicin­i­ty of Goose Lane with oth­ers when a black Hilux stopped and a man ex­it­ed and point­ed a gun at the group.

The gun­man opened fire and the group of men scam­pered. The man es­caped in the wait­ing ve­hi­cle.

Res­i­dents alert­ed the po­lice while Loo­by and Nurse were rushed to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope.

Of­fi­cers who vis­it­ed the scene were able to re­cov­er 16 spent shells, 12 of which were said to be 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion, while four ap­peared to be 45 cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion.

Sgt Tay­lor is con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.