The mur­der toll in­creased yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing sep­a­rate killings in Pe­tit Val­ley and San Juan.

In the first in­ci­dent at Hum­ming­bird Cir­cu­lar, Spar­row Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley, a man iden­ti­fied on­ly as Alvin was shot mul­ti­ple times as he stepped out of his home around 2.15 am.

Res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots and ar­riv­ing of­fi­cers found the vic­tim par­tial­ly sub­merged in a drain. He was wear­ing a blue jack­et, white jer­sey and brown pants. Three spent 9 mm shells were re­cov­ered at the scene.

And al­though a San Juan man was al­leged­ly shot in­side his home in the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day, his body was not found un­til sev­er­al hours lat­er.

Dwight Walk­er, 21, of Per­cy Street, Laven­tille Road, San Juan, was re­port­ed­ly killed by a man who had sup­pos­ed­ly been hid­ing in a bed­room on the first floor.

Just like in Pe­tit Val­ley, res­i­dents close to where Walk­er lived re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots and in­formed of­fi­cers, who found noth­ing.

It was not un­til 6 am yes­ter­day, when a 22-year-old male rel­a­tive went in search of Walk­er af­ter he failed to an­swer the phone, that his body was found.

Walk­er was found in his bed­room on the sec­ond floor, with a gun­shot wound to the back of his neck.

—An­na-Lisa Paul