Police responded to a report of a fatal shooting last night at Whitehall #2, St Michael.
Investigations revealed that the deceased had just arrived home in his motorcar when an unknown assailant approached him from the opposite side of the road and discharged a firearm, fatally wounding him.
A medical doctor who was summoned to the scene examined the body and pronounced death.
The deceased, who is known to the police, was positively identified by a relative as 40-year-old Nicolas Ethan Jordan of the same address.
Investigations are continuing into the matter.
The Barbados Police Service is appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who has any information that may assist in the investigation to contact the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-8477, Police Emergency at 211, or the District A Police Station at 430-7242 or 430-7246.
