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One man is now in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing the mur­der of 23-year-old Is­rael Collin in Ma­son Hall on Tues­day night, as To­ba­go’s homi­cide toll ris­es to sev­en for the year.

Guardian Me­dia was told Collin, al­so known as “Skeng”, was shot dead around 8.10 pm af­ter a grey Nis­san Ti­i­da stopped abrupt­ly out­side Basik’s Mi­ni Mart at Sandy Riv­er. Sev­er­al gun­men got out and opened fire be­fore es­cap­ing in the same ve­hi­cle.

Collin, who lived in the area, was found un­der a tent on the south­ern side of the road with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.