A 26-year-old man who re­cent­ly es­caped a shoot­ing in­ci­dent was gunned down out­side his home in St Mary’s Vil­lage, South Oropouche, on Mon­day night.

Aaron Lal­lan was shot near his car around 9.25 pm and sus­tained in­juries to his neck and back. He died at the scene.

A rel­a­tive who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty re­called that she was bathing when she heard three gun­shots.

Speak­ing with re­porters yes­ter­day, the rel­a­tive said she did not know any de­tails be­cause no one saw what hap­pened.

She said Lal­lan had a “his­to­ry” but had changed his life since be­com­ing a fa­ther, and as far as she knew, he nev­er got any threats.

“Right now we are trau­ma­tised be­cause he is young,” she said.

“Next two weeks would have been his birth­day, 27 years. He has a one-year-old daugh­ter. It re­al hard now be­cause I don’t know how his wife would cope.” She said the au­thor­i­ties “need to step up a lit­tle more” in curb­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Po­lice con­firmed that Lal­lan was charged in Jan­u­ary dur­ing the State of Emer­gency for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. He was on bail. They said Lal­lan had al­so re­ceived death threats stem­ming from an al­ter­ca­tion last year. In De­cem­ber, an as­sailant shot at him, but he es­caped un­harmed.

Po­lice re­cov­ered five spent shells and a live round of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion at the scene.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.