Man shot dead in Marabella

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

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Gun­shots rang out on Sat­ur­day evening, end­ing the life of 35-year-old Ki­jana Matthew Co­dring­ton, whose body was lat­er found on a road­way in Mara­bel­la.

Po­lice said that around 6 pm, sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions had been heard in the area, then of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port of a body at Grana­da Ter­race. Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers found Co­dring­ton ly­ing on the east­ern side of the road­way.

Co­dring­ton, of River­side Dri­ve, Gulf View, La Ro­main, was iden­ti­fied by his moth­er, Ann Marie Prescott.

Emer­gency med­ical per­son­nel ex­am­ined him at the scene but found no signs of life.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer lat­er vis­it­ed, pro­nounced Co­dring­ton dead, and or­dered the re­moval of the body to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre pend­ing a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered ten spent 9-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion cas­ings from the road­way.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be con­duct­ed next week.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.