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Shooting victim ‘targeted’

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Witnesses to Barbados’ latest homicide said they had no doubt about who was the gunman’s target.

That’s because from the moment the shooter stepped into the village shop at Welch, St John, yesterday, the perpetrator made it clear to the people around whom he wanted.

In “no time at all”, they said, and three bullets later, a 30-year-old man, who residents said was recently released from prison, was killed on the spot.

Police public relations officer, Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss said the report about the shooting was made to District ‘C’ Police Station around 12:30 p.m. (TG)

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