A po­lice of­fi­cer's son was one of three peo­ple shot dead in San­ta Cruz yes­ter­day.

A fourth man is cur­rent­ly ward­ed at the hos­pi­tal nurs­ing gun­shot wounds.

Dead are 19-year-old Fran­cois Hall, whose fa­ther is a po­lice of­fi­cer, Ian Gar­cia, 45, and a third man iden­ti­fied by the alias "Darko".

Ja­mal Bonne re­mained ward­ed at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion up to late yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 10.40 am on Kingston Av­enue in La Canoa, San­ta Cruz, two war­ring gangs in the area opened fire on each oth­er.

Hall and Darko died on the spot, while Gar­cia and Bonne were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.

Gar­cia even­tu­al­ly died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment.

Hall, an as­pir­ing foot­baller, was said to be will­ing to as­sist any­one in the com­mu­ni­ty. His killing was de­scribed as sense­less.

The triple mur­der and the shoot­ing death of an­oth­er man in Cu­mu­to ac­count­ed for four killings yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Hours be­fore the La Canoa shoot­ing, a 31-year-old man was killed in a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent in Cu­mu­to.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 4 am David King was at his fam­i­ly's Cu­mu­to home when four in­trud­ers en­tered.

King was in his back­yard when he was ap­proached by the four men armed with guns and cut­lass. King was chopped.

His neigh­bour ran across to as­sist him af­ter hear­ing the com­mo­tion and al­so re­ceived chop wounds.

King died on the scene while his neigh­bour was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal to re­ceive med­ical treat­ment.

The four in­trud­ers re­main at large.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the killing and a mo­tive is still to be de­ter­mined.