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.