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Bul­let holes now scar the side of a Pe­nal home af­ter gun­fire erupt­ed out­side a bar on Mon­day night, killing 38-year-old con­struc­tion work­er Kyle Bel­montes and leav­ing his fam­i­ly in mourn­ing.

Bel­montes, a fa­ther of three, was sit­ting un­der a shed in the carpark of Hang­over Restau­rant and Bar on Pe­nal Rock Road, when a gun­man opened fire. Around 11.54 pm, pa­trons re­port­ed hear­ing mul­ti­ple ex­plo­sions out­side the pop­u­lar venue.

Of­fi­cers from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rived short­ly af­ter mid­night and found Bel­montes dead in a drain on the com­pound. Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered 21 spent 5.56 shell cas­ings, five live 9mm rounds, and one pro­jec­tile at the scene.