RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Fol­low­ing a dead­ly shoot­ing at­tack on Car­ni­val Tues­day in Ve­gas, Mor­vant, in which five peo­ple were shot—two of whom died—po­lice of­fi­cers yes­ter­day shot a man while on pa­trol in the area yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The wound­ed man, iden­ti­fied as Ri­car­do Mar­tin, was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal by po­lice of­fi­cers, where he lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

Po­lice claimed Mar­tin shot at them and they re­turned fire.

Dur­ing a vis­it to the area at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia Ex­ten­sion, res­i­dents did not say much about what hap­pened. How­ev­er, the area was re­mark­ably qui­et, with just a few young men seen talk­ing to each oth­er.

One res­i­dent said, “We don’t know the man. They say he is Max from Va­len­cia and he come in the area to check out his girl­friend, but we re­al­ly don’t know him.”

An­oth­er res­i­dent said, “All we know is that the man run through a track up the hill and in the peo­ple yard and the po­lice run up be­hind him. We see him put his hands in the air, then we see the po­lice shoot him.”

A third res­i­dent, a woman, said in the past few weeks sev­er­al peo­ple have ei­ther been killed, shot or wound­ed and blamed the up­surge of shoot­ings on an on­go­ing “com­mu­ni­ty war.”

“Peo­ple around here are liv­ing in fear. I am afraid to walk the road and to trav­el. Every­body grow up to­geth­er but we don’t know what is hap­pen­ing now. Why they shoot­ing each oth­er and killing each oth­er. Too many wrong things go­ing on,” the woman said.

“I worked on a truck on Car­ni­val Tues­day and when I came home I heard they shot five peo­ple and out of the five, two died. It is scary up here,” she added.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port on the oth­er in­ci­dent, at about 4.40 pm on Tues­day, Keon Thomas, 30, and An­tho­ny Elvis Pear­son were among a group of five men lim­ing at a house at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, when gun­men stormed in and opened fire on them.

Thomas and Pear­son died on the scene while the oth­er three were tak­en to hos­pi­tal where they were treat­ed.

On Feb­ru­ary 14, at about 6.30 am, Al­fre­do “Fred­do” Alexan­der, 34, of 2nd Cale­do­nia, Mor­vant, was gunned down. On Jan­u­ary 29, Nkosi Lewis, 28, was shot dead while at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia.