Police have identified the man who was shot and killed in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, last evening (June 27).

He is thirty-year-old Krishna Gibbs, a higgler of Three Hills, in St. Mary.

Reports are that at about 9:14 p.m., Gibbs was standing along the roadway, when he was pounced upon by a man travelling in a Toyota Probox motor car who opened gunfire at him.

The police were alerted and Gibbs was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Investigations continue.