Man killed outside Penal bar

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

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A man be­lieved to be a Venezue­lan na­tion­al was shot dead out­side a bar in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day night, a short dis­tance from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lice said the vic­tim had not been for­mal­ly iden­ti­fied up to Sun­day, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing were con­tin­u­ing.

Res­i­dents ex­pressed shock that the fa­tal shoot­ing oc­curred so close to the po­lice sta­tion and said they were sur­prised that no ar­rests had been made.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the scene on Sun­day, a sin­gle ap­par­ent bul­let hole was vis­i­ble in a glass door at Sip and Chill Bar. Blood­stains re­mained out­side the premis­es, while an­oth­er pool of blood was vis­i­ble near a near­by par­lour.

One res­i­dent, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, said the bar re­mained open late in­to the night and de­scribed the killing as un­set­tling be­cause of its prox­im­i­ty to the po­lice sta­tion.

"That fun­ny be­cause right there it hap­pened, so close to the sta­tion," the res­i­dent said.

He said he learned of the in­ci­dent ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

"I now get up and heard that they kill some­body by the bar," he said.

Re­flect­ing on the vi­o­lence, he added, "You can't stop that, we can't help that. We have to live with that."

Po­lice have not re­leased a mo­tive for the killing, and no sus­pects had been ar­rest­ed up to Sun­day. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.