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The murder toll rose to 71 yesterday following three separate shootings in Barataria, Carapichaima and Petit Valley between Friday and yesterday.
In the first incident, around 5.40 pm on March 7, residents reported hearing gunshots coming from the vicinity of the savannah and later found Nicholas Simmons, 25, of Seventh Avenue, Malick, bleeding from wounds to the head, neck, and body. As officers arrived at the scene, they realised Simmons was still alive, so they rushed the injured man to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where he was declared dead at 6:02 pm.
Officers from the Special Evidence Recovery Unit (SERU) recovered three 5.56 mm and two 9 mm spent shells at the scene. Reports indicate Simmons had been seated on a concrete bench on the western side of the Otis Whitley Recreational Grounds, liming and drinking beer with his girlfriend around 5.40 pm, when a silver Nissan Note stopped in the road, and two armed men exited and opened fire on him.
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