A 27-year-old man died af­ter be­ing shot ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing in Curepe.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Shel­ton Share­wood, 27.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2 am Share­wood who was lim­ing by a bar in Curepe was shot in the chest by a masked gun­man.

He was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Hos­pi­tal where he died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment.

Rel­a­tives who were at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James for the au­top­sy re­fused to speak with the me­dia.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors said the mo­tive ap­peared to be gang-re­lat­ed.

His killing was record­ed as num­ber 334.

Mean­while, Mon­day’s mur­der vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Khary Vial­va.

Vial­va was shot dead dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing at Sev­enth Av­enue in Mal­ick on Mon­day evening.

Po­lice are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for his mur­der.