Investigators probing the murder of Corporate Area businessman Richard Ramdial are looking into claims that the incident may have been a contract killing.

Ramdial was shot several times as he sat in his Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle in a line of traffic along Ruthven Road in St Andrew yesterday afternoon.

More than a dozen bullets were reportedly fired into the vehicle.

It’s reported that about 4:30 two men came up to the businessman's car and opened fire.

They then fled.

The businessman was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.