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A 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man has been charged with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau met with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC and re­ceived ad­vice to charge the man, Nicholas Ma­habir alias “Scott” with the mur­der of Venezue­lan bar­ber, Irvin Joaquin May­o­ra, 30, and four counts of shoot­ing with in­tent to com­mit griev­ous bod­i­ly harm.

The sus­pect was al­so charged with the pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, as he was not the hold­er of a Firearms User’s Li­cense (FUL).