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A COUVA man and his girlfriend were shot and killed when they were ambushed by a gunman outside their home yesterday.

Devaughn Toussaint, 38, was holding a toddler when he was shot four times near a play park outside of his townhouse at Jade Court in Lisas Gardens and died at the scene, police said.

Toussaint’s girlfriend, identified by the police as Amily Hanandez, ran towards Toussaint and the toddler when the gunfire rang out and was shot multiple times. She died later at hospital. The child was not harmed.