An af­ter­noon mur­der at East Side Plaza, Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day left store own­ers shak­en, but se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to in­sist they have the crime sit­u­a­tion un­der con­trol.

A Ch­agua­nas man, em­ployed as a clean­er at the mall for the past three years, was shot dead around 3.40 pm, prompt­ing the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of the fa­cil­i­ty.

Re­ports in­di­cate the vic­tim, iden­ti­fied on­ly as “Kwan­do,” stepped out of the kitchen in­to an open cor­ri­dor af­ter re­ceiv­ing a phone call, where two gun­men were wait­ing. He col­lapsed af­ter be­ing shot, and the as­sailants fled on foot to­wards George Street.