A 43-year-old man was gunned down in Carapo on Thursday afternoon. According to a police report, at 4.30 pm Ellis Guppy of Carapo was shot dead along Race Course Road, Carapo.
Police said Guppy was a passenger in a white Mitsubishi panel van which was forced to stop when a black Nissan X-trail pulled up in front of it.
The gunmen then opened fire on Guppy, killing him on the scene. The gunmen re-entered the X-trail and escaped. Police are yet to determine a motive for the killing which has brought the murder count to 346.
In another incident, the decomposing body of a woman police constable was found at her home in La Horquetta.
According to a police report, at about 4.49 pm officers of the La Horquetta police station received a report that the body of a woman was found at a house along Dunsley Avenue, Greenvale.
