Three days af­ter gun­men am­bushed and shot a La Brea labour­er dur­ing a beach­front lime in Point Fortin, he suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

Jamieel Pierre, 24, of Oil­belt Road, Ves­signy Vil­lage, died from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds at the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day. With his death, de­tec­tives from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions: Re­gion Three have clas­si­fied the case as mur­der.

Po­lice said Pierre was with his girl­friend at the Clifton Hill Re­sort beach­front around 3.30 am on June 1 when she left to use the wash­room. Mo­ments lat­er, she heard a vol­ley of gun­shots. On re­turn­ing, she found Pierre sprawled on the sand with gun­shot wounds to his chest, back, and neck.

By­standers rushed to help, plac­ing Pierre in a ve­hi­cle and tak­ing him to the hos­pi­tal for emer­gency treat­ment. Hos­pi­tal staff im­me­di­ate­ly con­tact­ed Point Fortin po­lice, who re­spond­ed to the scene.

How­ev­er, the shoot­er had al­ready es­caped.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered two spent nine-mil­lime­tre shells at the scene. Po­lice were un­able to in­ter­view Pierre about the shoot­ing as he had been in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have not yet iden­ti­fied a mo­tive for the killing, and no one has been ar­rest­ed.