Jensen La Vende

Rel­a­tives of Ryan Bharatt are call­ing for a cur­few to be im­ple­ment­ed af­ter he was mur­dered some­time be­tween Fri­day night and ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, re­port­ed­ly for re­fus­ing to pay ex­tor­tion mon­ey.

Bharatt, 35, a cousin of mur­dered court clerk An­drea Bharatt, was shot once in the head. Po­lice said that around 12:48 am, Cpl Caruth and oth­er of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a shoot­ing at Church Street, Cara­po, where they found Bharatt. He was tak­en to the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal but was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.