The mur­der toll stood at 41 late yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a fa­tal shoot­ing at Arou­ca on Mon­day night.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent, at about 10.30 pm, po­lice of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force re­spond­ed to a shoot­ing re­port at Moun­tain View Dri­ve, Windy Hill, Arou­ca, where they found Solon James ly­ing at the side of the road.

He was shot sev­er­al times about the body.

Po­lice took him to the Ari­ma Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, one of the vic­tims from a shoot­ing in­ci­dent over the week­end suc­cumbed to his in­juries while at the hos­pi­tal on Mon­day night.

He was iden­ti­fied as Layne Cum­ber­batch.

Cum­ber­batch and his broth­er, Ka­reem “Dun­ga” Samuel, were shot at by gun­men at about 4 am on Sat­ur­day while they were at Hunte Road in San Juan. Samuel, 42, was killed on the scene.

Cum­ber­batch, who was al­so shot, po­lice said, at­tempt­ed to es­cape the gun­men by jump­ing a wall, how­ev­er, part of it col­lapsed on him.

He was tak­en to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed and ward­ed.

How­ev­er, po­lice said, he suc­cumbed to his in­juries on Mon­day night. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the two in­ci­dents.

(Rhon­dor Dowlat)