Oropouche man shot dead at home

A 32-year-old man was shot dead at his South Oropouche home late Thurs­day night.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Dil­lon Bun­see, a straight­en­er and painter of War­den Road, South Oropouche.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol in the Oropouche dis­trict at about 11.18 pm when they re­ceived re­ports of loud ex­plo­sions along War­den Road.

When of­fi­cers ar­rived at Bun­see's home, they found him ly­ing on his back in the garage area with ap­par­ent gun­shot wounds to the head and neck. Sev­er­al spent shells were al­so found at the scene.

Bun­see was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he suc­cumbed to his in­juries. He was pro­nounced dead at 11.44 pm.

Homi­cide Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors lat­er processed the scene and re­cov­ered six 9mm spent shell cas­ings marked "Luger 9mm".

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were told that around 11 pm, Bun­see was lim­ing at his home with his girl­friend, 24-year-old Nao­mi Ramd­hanie, and two oth­er men iden­ti­fied on­ly as Cameron Saitoo and "Goon", when a man en­tered the garage area armed with a firearm.

The sus­pect was de­scribed as be­ing of East In­di­an de­scent, slim build, light brown com­plex­ion, about 5 feet 7 inch­es tall, clean-shaven, and dressed in a black cam­ou­flage cap and black hood­ie.

Po­lice said the sus­pect fired sev­er­al shots at Bun­see be­fore flee­ing in an un­known di­rec­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.