A La Ro­maine labour­er is in dire need of six pints of blood af­ter he and a friend were in­jured in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing on Sat­ur­day night.

Rel­a­tives said Ri­car­do Bar­clay, 28, of Charles Street, La Ro­maine, re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion in the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter a sin­gle gun­shot pierced vi­tal or­gans. His friend, Gabre Cord­ner, 25, al­so of La Ro­maine, was be­ing treat­ed for gun­shot wounds to his chest, ab­domen and leg.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, the men were sit­ting on the road­side out­side Bar­clay’s house when a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled along­side them and a gun­man opened fire on them. Wit­ness­es said Bar­clay was struck in the hip and pre­tend­ed to be dead for a while. Cord­ner was hit sev­er­al times, but man­age to run away from the gun­men. The car sped off, leav­ing both men be­hind. Rel­a­tives said Bar­clay and Cord­ner were tak­ing a drink on the road­side when the car pulled up in front of them.

Al­though Bar­clay pre­tend­ed to be dead, he even­tu­al­ly passed out be­cause he was los­ing blood quick­ly. San Fer­nan­do po­lice re­spond­ed and they took the in­jured men to the hos­pi­tal for emer­gency treat­ment. A search was made through­out the com­mu­ni­ty for the gun­man and the car, but they were not found up to yes­ter­day evening. Po­lice be­lieve Cord­ner was the tar­get and they said he is known to them.

Res­i­dents said the re­cent shoot­ings in the area were the re­sult of a turf war, which was trig­gered since the slay­ing of well-known drug lord Gary Mc Clarence last Sep­tem­ber.