There were re­ports of men be­ing shot in two sep­a­rate un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents in Mor­vant and Barataria, both of which fall un­der the North East­ern Di­vi­sion.

In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, a 44-year-old man was shot in his hand while help­ing a friend in Mor­vant on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said the man was help­ing a friend with me­chan­ic work on a car, at Al­mond Dri­ve, at around 11.20 pm when a white Nis­san AD Wag­on drove near them. Gun­men in the car shot at the men who ran away.

The me­chan­ic was shot once in his left hand and was tak­en to hos­pi­tal by res­i­dents. Mor­vant po­lice and of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tion (NED CSI) Unit vis­it­ed the scene and found 11 spent 7.62 shells, eight 9 mm spent shells and a 40 cal­i­bre spent shell at the scene.

Hours ear­li­er on Fri­day af­ter­noon, a 35-year-old Rio Claro man drove on the East­ern Main Road, Barataria, near the East­ern Cred­it Union. The man drove in­to a car park but was con­front­ed by a gun­man who shot the vic­tim as he re­mained sit­ting in the car.

Passers by took the wound­ed man to hos­pi­tal where he un­der­went emer­gency surgery. In­ves­ti­ga­tors were un­able to get fur­ther de­tails from the wound­ed man due to his con­di­tion. Of­fi­cers of the NED CSI Unit vis­it­ed the scene and found three rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion.

On Fri­day, the East­ern Cred­it Union through a state­ment con­firmed that the shoot­ing hap­pened near their Barataria branch, but de­nied so­cial me­dia re­ports that the vic­tim used their fa­cil­i­ties