An uniden­ti­fied man was shot and killed in Red Hills D'abadie Tues­day night, the third mur­der in just un­der sev­en hours.

It fol­lowed a dou­ble mur­der in Moru­ga Tues­day af­ter­noon.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors told Guardian Me­dia they had not been able to im­me­di­ate­ly es­tab­lish any mo­tive for the killing in D'Abadie.

The shoot­ing oc­curred short­ly be­fore 10 pm.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent po­lice al­so re­spond­ed to a shoot­ing in the Mal­oney area close to 9:45 pm af­ter res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing rapid gun­fire in the area.

Ear­li­er Tues­day, two men were shot dead at Ed­ward Trace in Moru­ga.

One of the men was uniden­ti­fied while the oth­er was iden­ti­fied as 48-year-old Vin­cent St Bernard.

The two men were shot around 2.45 pm.