A Cara­po man was found dead in the kitchen of a house at La Plat­ta Gar­dens, Va­len­cia, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said An­tho­ny Sim­mons, 30, of Si­mon Road, Cara­po, who was well known by po­lice, was found with gun­shot wounds to his face.

Re­ports state that PCS Pope, Benoit, Men­doza and WPC Gon­za­les, of Va­len­cia Po­lice Post, re­spond­ed to re­port of loud ex­plo­sions at La Plat­ta Gar­dens at 3.30 am.

When they ar­rived at the scene, the of­fi­cers found Sim­mons ly­ing against a cup­board in the kitchen area un­re­spon­sive.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr White viewed the body and or­dered it re­moved to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, where it was to be trans­ferred to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, for a post-mortem.

Po­lice sources said Sim­mons, who was known to them, had left Cara­po and gone to Va­len­cia to hide.

CSI of­fi­cers WPC Castil­lo and Ngui processed the scene and re­trieved sev­er­al spent shells

Sgt Ramjohn, PCs Ali and Nunez, of the Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion II, joined the Va­len­cia Po­lice. Al­so vis­it­ing the scene were ASP Rus­sell Sgt Baksh and Cpl Jupiter.

This was the sec­ond mur­der re­port­ed with­in the com­mu­ni­ty in two days. On Fri­day night, Ja­mal Cum­ber­batch, 21, of Par­adise Lane, Va­len­cia, was shot dead and three oth­ers, in­clud­ing a 16-year-old stu­dent, were in­jured in an at­tack at a house there.