On the heels of Sun­day’s dri­ve-by shoot­ing where two peo­ple were killed and six oth­ers wound­ed and an­oth­er woman killed ear­ly Mon­day, com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist Cedric “Burkie” Burke in­sists that res­i­dents of Sea Lots are un­der at­tack, adding that they are “peace­ful peo­ple.”

Burke made the com­ment dur­ing CNC3’s Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, hours af­ter po­lice locked down the com­mu­ni­ty on Mon­day night to en­sure there was no fur­ther vi­o­lence.

Min­utes af­ter the dead­ly shoot­ing, it was said that there was a hit on Burke’s life. How­ev­er, he said he be­lieves oth­er­wise as he es­caped un­hurt.

Burke and sev­er­al res­i­dents were play­ing a game of pok­er at Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, just off the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way, Sun­day, when two ve­hi­cles pulled up short­ly af­ter 8 pm and its oc­cu­pants opened fire on them.

Rawlye Williams, 37, died on the spot while ca­lyp­son­ian Patrick “Re­veal­er” Lewis died of his in­juries at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Six oth­ers, Ja­mal Leid, 24; Nigel Roberts, 30; Shenelle John­son, 24; Trey Baird, 22; Trevor Isaac, 56 and Rahim Bruce, 23, were al­so hit.

Dur­ing yes­ter­day’s in­ter­view, Burke said one of Sun­day’s vic­tims re­mains ward­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Asked how he felt know­ing that he was the tar­get of the shoot­ing, Burke said he has noth­ing to fear and will go about his dai­ly rou­tine as nor­mal, “I have nev­er and nev­er will be. The peo­ple are cool and will go about their lives as nor­mal. Sea Lots don’t have any vi­o­lence, we don’t cre­ate any kind of vi­o­lence.”

Sub­se­quent to Sun­day’s dri­ve-by, a gun­man knocked on the front door of the home of Tra­cy Julius Rogers, 31, less than 12 hours lat­er. When she opened the door she was shot dead. It is be­lieved that her shoot­er came in via a pirogue, ac­cord­ing to one res­i­dent who spoke to Guardian Me­dia un­der strict anonymi­ty.

“There is on­ly one way in and one way out on this side and it had to be that the shoot­er come in here with a boat be­cause the wa­ter­front right there,” the res­i­dent said.

On Mon­day at about 4 pm, fire broke out in a wood­en and gal­vanise struc­ture off Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve where a woman on­ly iden­ti­fied as Lisa was stay­ing. She was found dead among the rub­ble.

Yes­ter­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, rel­a­tives of the woman re­fused to speak to mem­bers of the me­dia and al­so re­fused to con­firm her name.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.