Po­lice have yet to de­ter­mine whether a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent on Rush­worth Street, San Fer­nan­do, and the gun at­tack that claimed the life of Mon­i­ca Ghany and left her son Matthew wound­ed are con­nect­ed.

Matthew, 20, re­mains in sta­ble con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH), re­cov­er­ing from a gun­shot wound to his right hand. In­ves­ti­ga­tors have not yet ob­tained a state­ment from him, but they in­tend to ques­tion him about the crash once he can pro­vide de­tails. Pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion sug­gests that his car was one of two ve­hi­cles in­volved in the ac­ci­dent on Christ­mas Eve. Matthew was re­port­ed­ly tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment lat­er that evening.

How­ev­er, tragedy struck just on Fri­day as Ghany, wife of busi­ness­man Steve Ghany, and their son Matthew left the hos­pi­tal around 2 pm. Po­lice said as they drove along La­dy Hailes Av­enue near the new San Fer­nan­do Mar­ket con­struc­tion site, their Nis­san Ti­i­da sedan was am­bushed by gun­men trav­el­ling in a ve­hi­cle in the op­po­site di­rec­tion.

The at­tack­ers opened fire, rid­dling the car with bul­lets be­fore speed­ing away. Mon­i­ca died at the scene, while Matthew was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for emer­gency care.

This at­tack oc­curred hours af­ter the mur­der of a man known to res­i­dents as Bam. Bam was gunned down dur­ing a con­fronta­tion on Thurs­day night. Both in­ci­dents took place just a short dis­tance from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, lo­cat­ed on La­dy Hailes Av­enue, height­en­ing con­cerns about the brazen na­ture of the vi­o­lence.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are yet to as­cer­tain the Bam's iden­ti­ty and are yet to de­tain any sus­pects in both mur­ders.