Two women have been killed in the past four be­cause of their as­so­ci­a­tion/links with al­leged gang mem­bers and gangs.

The lat­est vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Caris­sa Pierre, 22, who was shot six times in the head near her home in Tu­na­puna on Tues­day night.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions by po­lice re­vealed Pierre was known to be af­fil­i­at­ed with mem­bers of the Ras­ta City gang and it is be­lieved she was killed be­cause of an on­go­ing ri­val­ry with mem­bers from the Ras­ta City and Mus­lims gang.

How­ev­er, Pierre’s close friends and fam­i­ly have re­fut­ed po­lice’s claims, say­ing she was not in­volved in any gang and gang-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties. A rel­a­tive, who wished not to be iden­ti­fied, said Pierre “was very out­go­ing and had a lot of friends.”

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 9.15 pm six shots were heard near Pierre’s #5 Lovell Trace, Monte Grande home. Up­on checks, Pierre was dis­cov­ered dead on the road­way.

On Sat­ur­day, Rachel Mo­hammed, 30, and her friend, a woman, were stand­ing near Mo­hammed’s Dook­iesingh Street, St Au­gus­tine home at about 11.20 pm when a gun­man walked up to them and opened fire. Mo­hammed and her friend were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mount Hope, where they treat­ed and ward­ed.

Mo­hammed, who un­der­went surgery, suc­cumbed to her in­juries on Sun­day short­ly af­ter 10 am. One of Mo­hammed’s rel­a­tives said they be­lieve she was the in­tend­ed tar­get of the gun­man be­cause she knew of cer­tain ac­tiv­i­ties and the al­leged peo­ple in­volved.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, Al­lis­ter Camp­bell, 42, was fa­tal­ly shot in­side his home at Uni­ty Lane in Cara­po short­ly af­ter 9 am yes­ter­day. Po­lice be­lieve his mur­der was a di­rect hit made from a high-pro­file pris­on­er. They al­so be­lieve Camp­bell’s killing was a reprisal to Mon­day’s mur­der where a man iden­ti­fied as Arnold Joseph, 39, of Pinewood Dri­ve, Cara­po, was stabbed to death.

The mur­der toll now stands at 117. There were 41 mur­ders in Jan­u­ary 2019 and 42 last month. At the end of March 2018 the mur­der toll was at 135.