Gunmen opened fire on a group of people in San Juan this morning, killing two people and injuring three more. Investigators said that the incident occurred just before 9am at the corner of Second Avenue and Saddle Road in San Juan. Police say four gunmen in a Toyota Yaris motor car pulled up to the group and opened fire. Reynold Victor, who police believe was the original target, was shot multiple times and killed at the scene, while four others were also hit, including Jelissa Payne. According to sources, Payne, 35, died later at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. Another woman was shot in the back and right knee and is in critical condition. According to police, a 59-year-old guy was shot in the left knee and back, while a 40-year-old man was wounded in the right knee and buttocks. Police sources say the hit on Reynold came from behind the prison walls as a message to his brother Arnold Victor, who is also imprisoned. Arnold Victor, aka Fox, has been in prison since 2009 on a charge of allegedly murdering Vegas gang leader Sean Bill Francis on the 26th of April 2009 while at a dumpster near his home. Fox had taken control of the Vegas community after Francis was murdered but he and three other men were subsequently arrested and charged with the alleged capital offense. In January 2010, Tekron Hill and Andy Ferriera were freed of Francis’ killing by then Port of Spain Magistrate Avason Quinlan, who ruled that a prima facie case was not made out against them. However the following month, Quinlan committed Fox and Matthew Perpignac to stand trial at the High Court on charges of allegedly murdering Francis. Fox was accused of controlling the Vegas community from behind bars and calling many shots from behind prison walls. He made more enemies than friends and as the gang culture changed on the outside, most of his loyal soldiers were either gunned down, killed by the police, charged with murder or simply disappeared. The killing of Foxs brother may have been as a result of a recent fallout Fox had with someone. Reynold and his mother had built a house in Vegas Morvant but were forced to leave and relocate to San Juan after their lives were threatened.

NORTH Eastern Division police were bracing on Monday night for reprisal shootings and an upsurge in violence after the murder of a sales clerk at his workplace a clothing store in Aranguez. Police said they were told two carloads of gunmen were targeting people in Malick in a direct response to the murder of Keston Alves hours earlier. Alves, 38, of Second Caledonia, Malick was killed on Monday afternoon when a gunman ran into the clothing store Threadz and shot him. Alves murder, police said, was gang-related. Police sources said a top member of the ABG gang is the cousin of Alves. That person is currently in remand prison, having been charged with murder. Alves murder, police believe, was in retaliation for the shooting death of Kelum Williams the nephew of another gang leader on Sunday afternoon. Police said 24-year-old Williams left his Upper Sixth Avenue, Malick home to visit a friend who lives nearby when he was shot dead. Williams uncle is said to be a senior member of the Rasta City gang. The ABG and Rasta City gangs, whose origins were in east Port of Spain, are engaged in a deadly conflict as they seek to expand their territory. Police sources said the ABG and Sixx gangs – the latter being a rival of Rasta City – have come to an understanding and are both targeting Rasta City members. Police confirmed that neither Williams and Alves was involved in criminal activities and they were murdered only because of their relationship to gang members. Police sources in North Eastern Division said officers were on high alert on Monday night and had stepped up patrols, especially in the Second Caledonia area. Speaking on Monday afternoon, the owner of the clothes store, who asked not to be identified, said he had been friends with Alves for years and they were planning to celebrate his (the store owner's) birthday later in the evening.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A 34-year-old man is dead after someone shot him multiple times in West Philadelphia. 19th District Philadelphia police officers responded to the call of a shooting Saturday afternoon, around 2 p.m., on the 5200 block of Jefferson Street, officials said. When officers arrived, they found the 34-year-old victim with multiple gunshot wounds across his body.

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