Two men were executed by two suspects dressed like police officers in an apartment in New Grant, last evening.
Guardian Media was told that Nicholas Brizon, 29, of Mc Lean Road, La Gloria Settlement, New Grant and Israel Hurbert, 28, from Pleasantville Terrace, Pleasantville, died at the scene.
Initial reports stated that around 6:20 pm on Sunday (November 5), two men wearing masks, dressed in dark-coloured clothing emblazoned with the word police, and armed with long firearms, banged on the door of an apartment on the ground floor of a duplex building at Mc Lean Road, La Gloria Settlement.
The suspects are said to have barged into the house and shouted, “Nobody move! Lie on the floor, head face down!” They then reportedly shot both men multiple times.
When the police got to the scene, they found Brizon face-down in a pool of blood on the floor in the living room area, and Hurbert lying on his right side on a couch in the living room.
Investigators viewed CCTV footage which showed the two suspects escaping in a Nissan X-Trail. The police later discovered the getaway vehicle abandoned at the community centre in La Gloria Settlement. It was subsequently towed to the special evidence recovery unit (SERU) in Cumuto.
Investigators are yet to determine a motive for the killings.
Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region 3, Southern Division, and Tableland Police Station visited the scene.
Investigations are ongoing.