The Tribune

By SANCHESKA DORSETT

Tribune Staff Reporter

sdorsett@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a 21-year-old man on Thursday night off Rocky Pine Road.

The victim - identified by police on Friday morning as Kieran Humes, of Rahmning Street - was pronounced dead at the scene through Palm Breeze Street.

According to police, around 11pm they received reports of gunshots being fired in the area of Rocky Pine Road. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the lifeless body of an adult male lying in the road.

Police are searching for a dark coloured Nissan vehicle that was seen leaving the scene after the shooting.

It was the country's third homicide for the new year, according to The Tribune's records.

The shooting death comes less than 24 hours after a teenager was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Foxdale subdivision near Sandilands Primary School.

According to police reports, shortly after 8pm on Wednesday, two men were standing in front of a home at Cordia Crescent when the occupants of a dark coloured Honda vehicle pulled up and fired several shots at them before speeding off.

The two victims were transported to hospital, where 18-year-old Jarvis Roker succumbed to his injuries. The other is listed in serious condition but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

Anyone with information on any of these murders is asked to contact police at 911 at 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or crime stoppers anonymoulsy at 328-TIPS.