A 30-year-old woman was shot dead after leaving a bar in Cocoyea Village, San Fernando on Monday morning.
She has been identified as Khadijah Hackett of Couva.
Police inquiries revealed that at 2 am, she was liming with a female friend at a bar at the Corner of Dallas Ave and Cocoyea Main Road.
Hackett left the bar and was heading towards her parked vehicle on the roadside when several shots rang out.
She was seen lying on the road and bleeding. She was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital.
A doctor from the hospital contacted the police around 3:10 am informing them that they were treating a patient for a gunshot wound to the right side of her head. She died around 5:17 am.
Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region 3 are investigating.