Po­lice fa­tal­ly shot a man, de­scribed as a con­tract killer, dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing shoot-out yes­ter­day in Mara­bel­la.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, Akeem Kingsale, 31, al­so known as Forty, was be­lieved to be a hired killer in the south­ern re­gion and was want­ed in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple vi­o­lent crimes.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit, un­der the com­mand of Sgt Seecha­ran and Cpl Hug­gins, act­ing on cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion, ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at an apart­ment com­plex lo­cat­ed on Ba­too Av­enue around 1 am yes­ter­day.