A 24-year-old man was killed “by firearm” on the public highway during the night from Friday to Saturday, in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, in Guadeloupe. Firefighters said they were alerted around 1:15 a.m.

They discovered a young man “in cardiac arrest” and death was declared by the Smur (emergency rescue) doctor. An open homicide investigation has been entrusted to the Saint-Claude Research Brigade, according to a source within the gendarmerie. A person in his "thirties" was also injured in the incident and was also hospitalized, without investigators having established, for the moment, any link between both cases. The facts, the circumstances of which are still unclear, occurred "as part of an evening" in a premises in the Doyon section (a district of the town), according to the same source, which specifies that "no suspect not identified at the moment"