Three more mur­ders have been re­port­ed in Mor­vant, Ari­ma and Freeport. The killings took place on Fri­day.

In Mor­vant, po­lice found 59-year-old Ri­car­do Fran­cis, of Sea View Hill, Care­nage, in a black Nis­san B-14 around 6 am at the cor­ner of Gal­ba Street and La­dy Young Av­enue. He had a gun­shot wound on the left side of his body.

Fran­cis was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he died.

In the oth­er in­ci­dent in Ari­ma, An­tho­ny “Boyo” Joseph was shot sev­er­al times at Dump Road. He died at the scene.

The po­lice said in the third in­ci­dent in Cara­pichaima, a PH dri­ver who re­cent­ly moved in­to the area to live was shot dead while hav­ing a drink of wa­ter Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The re­port said short­ly af­ter 4 pm, Sime­on “Teeths” Bap­tiste, 23, orig­i­nal­ly from Old Long­denville Road, was ply­ing his car for hire along the St Mary’s Junc­tion, Cara­pichaima to Wa­ter­loo route when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

Po­lice said Bap­tiste was parked up on the junc­tion near the phar­ma­cy and was in his car drink­ing a bot­tle of wa­ter, when a man dressed in a hood­ie came up to him and shot him.

Bap­tiste at­tempt­ed to run away but fell to the ground in front of the phar­ma­cy, where he died.

In­sp Elvin Richard­son of Homi­cide Re­gion 3 is head­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to that in­ci­dent.