POLICE have reported that ballistics tests verified the identification of two weapons from which twenty-three 7.62 x 39 spent shells recovered at East La Penitence Police Station in Georgetown, after the drive-by shooting Tuesday night, were fired.

The report said the shells match those retrieved after the Lusignan, East Coast Demerara and Bartica, Essequibo River massacres, in which a total of 23 persons were killed.

The discards also matched others found at the scene of a robbery/murder in Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara, in 2006, according to the press release, which said investigations into the La Penitence incident are continuing.

Shortly after midnight Tuesday, gunmen in a vehicle discharged a volley of shots that hit the outer walls of the La Penitence station, located at the junction of Mandela Avenue and Arapaima Street.

Fortunately, the gunfire injured no one but damaged three glass windows on the lower flat and the walls on the western and southern side of the upper flat of the building, the release said.

It was the second attack on a Police precinct this year, following that on January 26, when a guard hut on Young Street, at the Eve Leary Headquarters, also in the city, was fired on by a group of unidentified men in a passing motor car.

That happened hours before 12 persons, including five children, were slaughtered at Lusignan, in the first of two terrorist incidents.

The second occurred when a marauding gang killed three cops at the Police Station and nine other people at Bartica one February night.