Eight peo­ple have been killed on Wednes­day in a mat­ter of hours, and po­lice of­fi­cers have de­scribed it as re­venge killings in the af­ter­math of Mon­day’s mur­der of Ka­reem Wal­ters, al­so known as Pin­to Boss and Crime Boss of Pin­to Road in Ari­ma.

Ear­li­er this morn­ing, three peo­ple iden­ti­fied as Je­re­mi­ah De Fri­etas 18, Teshera Mc Ken­na 39 and Jor­dan Mc Ken­na 19 were shot dead. Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the three were in an SUV when a man alight­ed from a ve­hi­cle and opened fire on them. The three got out of the SUV and at­tempt­ed to run away but were all gunned down.

Po­lice said the gun­man was be­lieved to have been armed with a high-pow­ered weapon.
Cur­rent­ly, the po­lice are on an­oth­er scene at St John’s Road in St Au­gus­tine where five peo­ple were killed. Their iden­ti­ties are yet to be dis­closed.

Wal­ters, 35, of Ari­ma, was shot dead and his body found in the area where three sus­pects were seen walk­ing. Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 4.40 pm on Mon­day, Wal­ters’ body was found about 40-feet down a precipice just off the To­co Main Road.
Po­lice said he was shot mul­ti­ple times about the head and body. Wal­ters lived at Pin­to Road.

Three sus­pects: a 35-year-old of Train Line, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma; a 32-year-old of Ea­mon Lane, Va­len­cia and a 29-year-old man of Right­eous Lane are now in po­lice cus­tody as­sist­ing po­lice in Wal­ters’ mur­der.

Re­porter: Rhon­dor Dowlat