A Venezue­lan man who poked his head out­side his front door af­ter hear­ing a com­mo­tion, was shot in the mouth and neck by the men who were chas­ing his 44-year-old friend to kill him on Tues­day night.

The in­jured man was wait­ing for his friend at his apart­ment at Eighth Av­enue North, Barataria, around 9.48 pm on April 8, when sev­er­al gun­shots were heard.

The in­tend­ed vic­tim told po­lice he was walk­ing home and up­on reach­ing the gate to his house, he saw the two men run­ning to­wards him.

As one man pulled out a gun and fired sev­er­al shots at him, the vic­tim ran in­to his yard and went to the back of the house as the sus­pects pur­sued him.

As the vic­tim climbed over the fence and jumped in­to a drain to es­cape the sus­pects, the vic­tim’s friend opened the front door and stuck his head out, prompt­ing them to shoot at him.

He was shot in the mouth and left side of the neck by the sus­pects who walked out of the yard.

The in­jured man was rushed to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency Ward at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was treat­ed and ward­ed in a sat­is­fac­to­ry con­di­tion.

Nine spent shells along with one mag­a­zine and sev­en live rounds of am­mu­ni­tion were re­cov­ered at the scene. —An­na-Lisa Paul