As gun­shots rang out in the area known as the Con­go in Ari­ma on Fri­day night, res­i­dents hid in their homes to en­sure they did not end up in the cross­fire.

Al­though they alert­ed law­men that gun­shots were heard, pre­lim­i­nary checks did not turn up any­thing.

It was not un­til 7 am on Sat­ur­day that the fam­i­ly of Ker­ron “Kayo” Prince dis­cov­ered his bul­let-rid­dled corpse ly­ing on the road close to his home. It is be­lieved that Prince, 34, of Olton Road, Ari­ma, was shot by un­known gun­men.

Mean­while, in a dou­ble homi­cide at Bark­er Trace, Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley, around 12.45 pm on Sat­ur­day, two broth­ers were said to have fought to death.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Christo­pher Williams, 26 and Gabriel Joseph, 31, were fight­ing when they stabbed each oth­er about the body. The broth­ers re­port­ed­ly fell over a bal­cony.

These mur­ders and the killing of a fa­ther, Stephon McLeod, 40 and his two-year-old daugh­ter, Ani­ah, on Fri­day night in Tu­na­puna have brought the count to 215.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.