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Man, 36, fatally shot in West Oak Lane

The man was shot from point blank range in his face, neck, chest, his back, both arms and one of his legs. Medics pronounced the man dead on the scene at 3:10 p.m., said Chief Inspector Scott Small.

    by Phillip Lucas
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A broad daylight shooting in West Oak Lane Tuesday afternoon left a 36-year-old man dead, police said. The victim's relatives and friends said the incident also left the slain man's seven children fatherless. 
The shooting unfolded about 3 p.m. in parking lot of a Jamaican restaurant on Limekiln Pike near East Washington Lane, across the street from a church and an apartment building. 
The man was shot from point blank range in his face, neck, chest, his back, both arms and one of his legs. Medics pronounced the man dead on the scene at 3:10 p.m., said Chief Inspector Scott Small. 
Cops said judging from the amount of times the man was wounded, it was clear that he was the shooter's intended target. However, authorities were unsure of what specifically the victim was targeted for. 
At least one other person was sitting in the lot with the victim at the time, police said. The witness was taken to speak with officials at the Homicide Unit. 
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators scoured the area for evidence as the victim's sobbing relatives, friends and neighbors looked on. Some craned their necks over a fence to watch police place evidence markers around a silver Acura sedan. 
Cops found 11 45-caliber shell casings in the parking lot, and towed all of the cars that were parked on the scene to dust them for fingerprints, Small said. The lot is known to police and neighbors as an area where people typically loiter during the day. 
Cops said two men were seen fleeing the area, possibly in a white Chevrolet that was last seen heading south from the scene. Police said the unidentified victim did not work at the restaurant and that the shooting itself did not appear to be related to the business - which is housed in a beige, nondescript two-story clapboard house. 
The victim's relatives and friends said the man moved to America 20 years ago from St. Catherine Parish, in southeastern Jamaica and worked as a mechanic. 

A broad daylight shooting in West Oak Lane Tuesday afternoon left a 36-year-old man dead, police said.

The victim's relatives and friends said the incident also left the slain man's seven children fatherless.

The shooting unfolded about 3 p.m. in parking lot of a Jamaican restaurant on Limekiln Pike near East Washington Lane, across the street from a church and an apartment building.

The man was shot from point blank range in his face, neck, chest, his back, both arms and one of his legs. Medics pronounced the man dead on the scene at 3:10 p.m., said Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Cops said judging from the amount of times the man was wounded, it was clear that he was the shooter's intended target. However, authorities were unsure of what specifically the victim was targeted for.

At least one other person was sitting in the lot with the victim at the time, police said. The witness was taken to speak with officials at the Homicide Unit.

Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators scoured the area for evidence as the victim's sobbing relatives, friends and neighbors looked on. Some craned their necks over a fence to watch police place evidence markers around a silver Acura sedan.

Cops found 11 45-caliber shell casings in the parking lot, and towed all of the cars that were parked on the scene to dust them for fingerprints, Small said. The lot is known to police and neighbors as an area where people typically loiter during the day.

Cops said two men were seen fleeing the area, possibly in a white Chevrolet that was last seen heading south from the scene. Police said the unidentified victim did not work at the restaurant and that the shooting itself did not appear to be related to the business - which is housed in a beige, nondescript two-story clapboard house.

The victim's relatives and friends said the man moved to America 20 years ago from Saint Catherine Parish, in southeastern Jamaica and worked as a mechanic.