A Barataria man who re­cent­ly moved to Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, was killed on Fri­day night as he re­turned to his rent­ed apart­ment in the qui­et area lo­cat­ed off Sie­u­nar­ine Trace.

Sher­von “Nik­ki” Man­zano, 39, was pur­sued and shot dead by three gun­men who had been wait­ing in the bush­es.

Around 11.50 pm on Fri­day, Man­zano who had ad­dress­es at Sil­ver Mill, San Juan and Mt D'Or Road, Champs Fleurs, was in the com­pa­ny of three oth­ers in a Toy­ota Axio pro­ceed­ing along Sagram Dri­ve when the gun­men opened fire on the ve­hi­cle.

In a bid to es­cape his killers, the in­jured Man­zano ran through an emp­ty lot but col­lapsed one street away along Ish­mael Av­enue. He was fol­lowed and shot sev­er­al more times. He died at the scene.

Ali­cia Mo­hammed, 25 and Bri­an Mo­hammed, 19, both of Riv­er Es­tate, Diego Mar­tin and Shir­vana Ma­haraj, 19 of Madras Road, St He­le­na, were in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

As the gun­men fled in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle, res­i­dents found the three in­jured peo­ple hid­ing in a house.

They were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

When the Sun­day Guardian vis­it­ed the area yes­ter­day, res­i­dents re­fused to speak about the in­ci­dent.

Man­zano on­ly moved in­to the area one month ago.

Mean­while, a sec­ond man died fol­low­ing a sim­i­lar in­ci­dent hours ear­li­er at Dins­ley Gar­dens, Trinci­ty.

Around 9.34 pm, Jar­ron “Kite­man” Cal­liste was shot as he ex­it­ed Deb­bie’s Con­ve­nience Store at Mc Con­nie Street.

Cal­liste, 34, of Up­per Sev­enth Av­enue, Mal­ick, Barataria, col­lapsed on the road.

Res­i­dents rushed the in­jured man to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was pro­nounced dead. In­ves­ti­ga­tors have de­scribed the mur­der as gang-re­lat­ed.

Po­lice be­lieve that an at­tempt was made to kill Cal­liste two weeks ago. The gun­men es­caped af­ter the ve­hi­cle they were dri­ving along Up­per Sev­enth Av­enue was in­ter­cept­ed by of­fi­cers on pa­trol then.

Dur­ing that in­ci­dent, the two men fired at of­fi­cers as they aban­doned the car and fled on foot. The of­fi­cers re­turned fire and gave chase but were un­able to ar­rest the sus­pects.