Res­i­dents of Par­adise Heights, Mor­vant, rushed to lock them­selves in yes­ter­day morn­ing, as a gun­man opened fire on a man as he used the bath­room.

Po­lice said Pe­ter Fer­di­nand Shoy, al­so known as “Frog­gy,” a con­trac­tor, was shot mul­ti­ple times at 9.30 am, as he was in the ground-floor wash­room of Build­ing D.

Res­i­dents of the hous­ing scheme re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots and rushed to check, fol­low­ing which they found Shoy on the ground in a pool of blood.

As a par­ty of of­fi­cers de­scend­ed on the qui­et de­vel­op­ment, res­i­dents were lat­er forced to open their doors for uni­formed of­fi­cers to search their homes.

This, even as the pa­ra­me­ters of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were be­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly spelt out by act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Stu­art Young dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

Armed of­fi­cers be­gan knock­ing on doors as they con­duct­ed house-to-house search­es. Util­is­ing at least two K9 dogs dur­ing the search­es, of­fi­cers were al­so seen lug­ging a bat­ter­ing ram along.

Wel­com­ing the law­men as he opened his door and walked out, ges­tur­ing for them to en­ter and search the ground-floor premis­es, an el­der­ly res­i­dent who re­quest­ed his name not be pub­lished, said, “I glad for this kin­da vis­it be­cause the place un­der a kin­da med­i­ta­tion right now.

“I wel­come this move,” he added, “They doh need a war­rant to come by me.”

The man went on to say, “I pay­ing rent and liv­ing in jail...they shoul­da do this long time, not just here in Par­adise, but all over.”

Asked about the crime sit­u­a­tion and the de­ci­sion by the Gov­ern­ment to in­tro­duce a cur­few-less SoE, the res­i­dent sug­gest­ed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er “drop­ping the old age pen­sion to 15 be­cause they not reach­ing age to draw noth­ing.”

Re­fer­ring to Sun­day’s shoot­ing at Priz­gar Lands, Laven­tille, which claimed the lives of five men and left a sixth nurs­ing in­juries, he joked, “The Gov­ern­ment get­ting all that pen­sion mon­ey...come on, drop the pen­sion, why you rais­ing it high­er?”

“Is on­ly young peo­ple dy­ing,” he claimed.

“It sad, it painful.”

Say­ing he was un­com­fort­able com­ing out be­fore 6 am every day, the 63-year-old, who has been liv­ing in the area for over 40 years, said, “Every­body up here pleased with this ... if any­body is against this, is be­cause they deal­ing with il­le­gal stuff.”