[UPDATED] Police probe overnight murders in Malabar, Arima, and Laventille

Three people were shot dead in unrelated incidents in Malabar and Laventille between Friday night and Saturday morning.

In the first incident, police said, Shane Burke, 32, was liming with two friends at a fruit stall on Trainline Road, Malabar around 8.40 pm when a black car approached the group.

Three gunmen got out of the car and fired several shots at Burke and his friends before escaping the waiting car.

Burke was shot several times while another man was shot three times in the left upper thigh and the other was shot on his right index finger.

Members of the Northern Division Emergency Response Patrol responded to the report and took the wounded men to the Arima hospital where they were treated.

Investigators found and seized 46 spent shells and five live rounds of ammunition at the scene.

Little less than an hour later, a 19-year-old man was gunned down while watching television in the living room of a house on La Retreat Road, Arima.

Police said Antony Fuentes was at his home at around 9.45 pm when five men barged in the house and shot him several times before running away.

Residents heard the gunshots and on checking saw Fuentes bleeding.

Police went to the scene with a district medical officer who declared Fuentes dead.

Crime scene investigators found and seized nine spent shells inside the house.

Hours later an 18-year-old Laventille man was gunned down while still in bed at his home in the Picton housing development.

Police said Nicholas Corbin was shot several times by a gunman who entered the house at around 2.45 am.

A relative who was in the house called the police.

A team of police from the Inter-Agency Task Force and the Besson Street CID went to the area with a district medical officer who declared Corbin dead.

These three murders brought the murder toll to 407 as of Saturday afternoon.