A man from Laven­tille was mur­dered in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing near his home yes­ter­day af­ter­noon. 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 2.30 pm, Roshaun Pierre was stand­ing out­side a shop along Old St Joseph Road near the in­ter­sec­tion with Pash­ley Street in Laven­tille when the oc­cu­pants of a car dri­ving by opened fire. 

Pierre was hit sev­er­al times and died on the scene. 

When a news team from Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the com­mu­ni­ty, scores of res­i­dents gath­ered near Pierre’s body as crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors took pho­tographs and col­lect­ed spent shells. 

A preg­nant woman, iden­ti­fied by res­i­dents as Pierre’s girl­friend, was in­con­solable as she screamed, wailed, and rolled around while ly­ing on the ground un­der a tent a few feet away from his body. 

Pierre’s fa­ther had to be re­strained by heav­i­ly armed po­lice of­fi­cers as he ig­nored the cau­tion tape in­stalled by po­lice of­fi­cers and sought to run to his son’s body. 

While po­lice of­fi­cers ini­tial­ly ap­peared hes­i­tant to al­low Pierre’s fa­ther the chance to see his son, they even­tu­al­ly briefly fa­cil­i­tat­ed it as they (the of­fi­cers) were jeered by cu­ri­ous on­look­ers. 

“Leave the man. That is his on­ly son. He on­ly has daugh­ters now,” one woman was heard scream­ing. 

Sev­er­al res­i­dents, who asked to re­main un­named, claimed that Pierre was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” as they main­tained that he was not known to en­gage in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. 

“I am an el­der in the com­mu­ni­ty and I could say that he was not in no gang thing. That is an in­no­cent man get killed,” one man said. 

A post-mortem will be per­formed on Pierre’s body at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre lat­er this week. 

Pierre’s killing raised the mur­der count for the year to 408. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.