Inniss met his death on Saturday morning, when he made a routine stop at a newspaper stand in Buxton to collect his newspapers. His assailants, who were apparently trailing him in a white car, stopped, exited their vehicle, and pumped a volley of shots into his body killing him on the spot.

The perpetrators then escaped.

Information was scarce about a female, who was reportedly with him, but who fled the scene.

At the time of his death, Inniss was the driving force behind the incomplete investigations into the discovery, in May this year, of 1,871 kilogrammes of compressed cannabis sativa, the equivalent of 4,116 pounds and with a street value in excess of $60M. The drug was found behind a false wall in a container.

The killing of Inniss follows a grenade attack on the CANU, Homestretch Avenue office earlier this month, by persons unknown. That attack resulted in damage to the building and a number of vehicles.