The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to rise fol­low­ing a fa­tal shoot­ing in Care­nage yes­ter­day.

The in­ci­dent, which oc­curred around 7 am at Up­per Abbe Pou­jade Road, Scor­pi­on Al­ley, Care­nage, left 30-year-old Ronald Joseph dead.

Po­lice said Joseph was stand­ing on the road near his home when he was ap­proached by a masked man who shot him sev­er­al times.

As the gun­man fled on foot, the in­jured man ran a short dis­tance be­fore col­laps­ing. Joseph died at the scene.

No of­fi­cial mo­tive has been de­ter­mined.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were told of an on­go­ing con­flict be­tween two groups in the area, and Joseph’s killing is be­lieved to be linked to it.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent on School Street, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, a man iden­ti­fied as Joseph Nar­cis died fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er in­di­vid­ual.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 8 am in full view of sev­er­al peo­ple, who at­tempt­ed to sep­a­rate the two dur­ing their phys­i­cal al­ter­ca­tion.

A video post­ed on so­cial me­dia showed Nar­cis, armed with a cut­lass, run­ning to­wards an­oth­er man and at­tempt­ing to chop him.

The oth­er man de­fend­ed him­self and lat­er re­port­ed­ly stabbed Nar­cis sev­er­al times with a knife dur­ing the con­fronta­tion.

The man even­tu­al­ly grabbed the cut­lass and ran in­to a near­by yard, while Nar­cis ran off. Nar­cis lat­er died at hos­pi­tal. — An­na-Lisa Paul