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The usu­al hus­tle and bus­tle con­tin­ued as nor­mal along Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, hours af­ter a shoot­ing on Sat­ur­day night that claimed the life of a for­mer na­tion­al foot­baller and left two oth­ers in­jured.

Po­lice said Tekay Hoyce, 27, of Richard­son Lane, Laven­tille, was pur­sued and shot mul­ti­ple times by two gun­men around 6.25 pm on Sat­ur­day.

The for­mer Un­der-17 foot­baller died on the pave­ment, crouched in a cor­ner against the stat­ue of a Chi­nese drag­on. Hoyce was shot in the left shoul­der, up­per chest, and head. The gun­men then turned their weapons on passers-by, cre­at­ing a di­ver­sion to es­cape in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle.