A woman and her boyfriend were shot dead dur­ing a brazen gun at­tack near their home in Cou­va yes­ter­day. Po­lice said Amelia Her­nan­dez was killed even as she tried to pro­tect their daugh­ter.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 2.30 pm in the Jade Court com­mu­ni­ty in Lisas Gar­dens West. Po­lice said a gun­man wear­ing a hood­ie got out of a grey Corol­la ve­hi­cle and opened fire on 38-year-old De­vaughn Tou­s­saint, who was with Her­nan­dez and their in­fant daugh­ter out­side his car.

Her­nan­dez, on see­ing what was hap­pen­ing, ran to pro­tect their daugh­ter, but the gun­man first shot Tou­s­saint be­fore chas­ing down Her­nan­dez and fir­ing at her sev­er­al times in a near­by park. The cou­ple’s daugh­ter es­caped un­hurt al­though Her­nan­dez was shot in front of her.