A 26-year-old man from San­ta Cruz who was shot while lim­ing at a bar at Bourg Mu­la­tresse died at hos­pi­tal.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Ja­mal Blake.

Blake was al­so a mem­ber of the T&T De­fense Force.

Po­lice said at about 1.50 am Blake was lim­ing at a bar at the cor­ner of Grand Cu­ru­caye Road, Bourg Mu­la­tresse when two men with guns ap­proached him and opened fire.

Blake and a woman, 39, were both shot.

Po­lice said Blake was shot in the chest and the woman in the right leg.

Both wound­ed vic­tims were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex for treat­ment, how­ev­er, Blake was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Po­lice are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing.

—Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant