Three men were killed and two per­sons wound­ed an hour apart in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents along the east-west cor­ri­dor yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

In the first in­ci­dent, po­lice said Ak­il Pierre, 23 and Mark Seignoret, 45, were sit­ting in the gallery of their home at the cor­ner of Hall and Ed­ward Streets, off Sher­wood Park, Ari­ma, at around 12.40 pm when they were con­front­ed by a masked gun­man who shot them sev­er­al times be­fore run­ning away.

A woman who was stand­ing near the men at the time of the at­tack was grazed by bul­lets on her right shoul­der and right calf.