Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Po­lice shot and killed a man at Carl­ton Lane, San Fer­nan­do who was en­quir­ing about a sur­veil­lance drone in the dis­trict. De­tails are sketchy but po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Adele Gilbert.

Po­lice said short­ly be­fore 1 pm, Gilbert, who was work­ing on a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion project, ap­proached a man dressed in civil­ian cloth­ing and en­quired about the drone cam­era lo­cat­ed on a near­by build­ing.

There was an ar­gu­ment and Gilbert be­gan to run. He was pur­sued and shot, eye­wit­ness­es said.

The in­ci­dent took place at the Carl­ton Lane, HDC project, which po­lice have iden­ti­fied as a crime hotspot.

Res­i­dents are cur­rent­ly in tense stand-off with po­lice over the shoot­ing. Homi­cide of­fi­cers are cur­rent­ly on the scene.