Joshua Seemu­n­gal

A Chi­nese na­tion­al was killed af­ter be­ing shot mul­ti­ple times at Sev­enth Av­enue, Barataria, at around 9 am yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port of a shoot­ing at Sev­enth Av­enue at around 9.48 am.

When they re­spond­ed, they found a male Chi­nese na­tion­al on the ground near a ve­hi­cle, out­side of De­cod­ed Car­ni­val Lounge.

He was bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds to his tor­so.

The vic­tim was rushed to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, but died while be­ing treat­ed.

He was lat­er iden­ti­fied as 20-year-old, Yu Yi Jen.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the scene on Sun­day morn­ing, a res­i­dent told us that they heard two gun­shots. He said he wasn’t sur­prised that there was a shoot­ing in the area in light of re­cent shoot­ings that took place.

Oth­er res­i­dents looked on, won­der­ing why there were so many po­lice of­fi­cers around.

Up­on hear­ing about the shoot­ing, sev­er­al res­i­dents said they no longer felt as safe as they once did in Sev­enth Av­enue be­cause there has been an in­crease in shoot­ings.

Last No­vem­ber, a 33-year-old Chi­nese na­tion­al was shot in his face af­ter leav­ing his Sev­enth Av­enue, Barataria home.

A week be­fore he was shot, his ve­hi­cle was set on fire.

A video that ap­peared to be cap­tured by close cir­cuit tele­vi­sion, showed a white ve­hi­cle pulling up as Yu Yi Jen was about to en­ter his ve­hi­cle.

A man ex­it­ed the front pas­sen­ger seat and ran up to the vic­tim be­fore shoot­ing him at close range.

He then re­turned the ve­hi­cle with sped off.