Two men were shot dead and an­oth­er man in­jured in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Siparia and Mara­bel­la on Fri­day night. They have been iden­ti­fied as Josi­ah Joseph, alias Pen­nie, 21, of Quinam Road, Pe­nal, and Cur­ban James, al­so known as Ban, 48, a welder of West Bayshore, Mara­bel­la.

In the first in­ci­dent, short­ly be­fore 9 pm, po­lice re­spond­ed to a re­port of gun­shots at Well Road, Siparia. When they got to the lo­ca­tion, how­ev­er, the of­fi­cers were met with hos­til­i­ty by sev­er­al peo­ple gath­ered on the road and in a yard.

On the front porch of an un­fin­ished struc­ture, the of­fi­cers saw Joseph bleed­ing on the floor. He had been shot ap­prox­i­mate­ly six times. While be­ing trans­port­ed in an EHS am­bu­lance to the Siparia Health Fa­cil­i­ty, he suc­cumbed to his in­juries and was pro­nounced dead by a doc­tor around 9.25 pm. Po­lice said 12 spent 9mm cas­ings were re­trieved at the scene.