A Bel­mont teenag­er, try­ing to earn mon­ey to pur­chase books and uni­forms in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the up­com­ing school term, died af­ter gun­men opened fire on a group of men along Ser­raneau Road, Bel­mont, dur­ing the mid-morn­ing yes­ter­day.

Zion Roberts, 14, a Form Two stu­dent of the Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary School, was pro­nounced dead at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal short­ly af­ter­wards.

A 24-year-old man, who was al­so in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent, re­mained hos­pi­talised in a sta­ble con­di­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter be­ing treat­ed for a wound to the right hand.