A man want­ed in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al re­cent homi­cides was killed dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Mor­vant on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the man as Ke­beedy “Rhi­no” Per­pi­gnac, who was al­so the sub­ject of an out­stand­ing Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der.

Be­tween 2 am and 6 am, of­fi­cers from the Mor­vant Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and San Juan CID con­duct­ed an op­er­a­tion in the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion dis­trict.