In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the killing of a 40-year-old man in Cunu­pia yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 1 am they re­spond­ed to a call from a res­i­dent at Mon­roe Road, Cunu­pia where they found two men with chop wounds in the liv­ing room and bath­room area.

They were told by a 15-year-old, who lives at the house, that he heard the dog bark­ing in­side the house and woke up to check. It was then he saw his 29-year-old un­cle and an­oth­er man, iden­ti­fied as Michael Sama­roo, fight­ing in the bath­room area.

He raised an alarm and his fa­ther and broth­er man­aged to re­strain the two men. His un­cle and Sama­roo were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex where Sama­roo suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

The 29-year-old is said to be in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Po­lice found a knife and cut­lass at the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing to de­ter­mine ex­act­ly what hap­pened.

Woman shot re­turn­ing from fete

A 19-year-old woman was shot min­utes af­ter re­turn­ing from a Car­ni­val par­ty on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 3.30 am, the woman of Cara­po was in the com­pa­ny of a man and had just reached the Mal­oney area in the vicin­i­ty of Build­ing 6.

As she ex­it­ed her friend’s car to re­lieve her­self, gun­shots rang out and she felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion on the right side of her body.

She was tak­en to the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Po­lice said the woman’s right lung was punc­tured in the shoot­ing.

Car stolen in El Do­ra­do

A 20-year-old man of Ari­ma Old Road, Arou­ca had his car stolen in El Do­ra­do on Mon­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 5.30 am the vic­tim parked his white Nis­san AD Wag­on val­ued at $40,000 along Wilkin­son Street, El Do­ra­do, se­cured it and went away.

When he re­turned five hours lat­er his car was gone along with his bank cards and valu­ables which were in­side.

Gun, am­mo seized

Po­lice of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics in El Do­ra­do dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise.

Around 4 pm of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol went to a bushy area at Col­lege Road where they found one Glock 45 Pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 14 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion. They al­so found 500 grammes of com­pressed cannabis.