Police say that they've found what they believe to be an improvised weapon.
On Sunday night, at around 10 when the Gang Suppression Unit responded to the murder of David Hernandez at the corner of Racecourse Street and East Canal, they received a report that a firearm was being disposed of.
The responding officers then went an area of George Street where they found a home-made firearm under a pickup truck. The Scenes of Crime personnel were then brought in to try to retrieve prints, but police have not announced that any were found.
According to firearms experts, this device is made from two parts of a bicycle frame. A 12-gauge cartridge has to be inserted into barrel section, and it must be forced into the other section. The base of the firearm must then be hit against a nail, which serves as a firing pin inside the second section, which will cause the cartridge to discharge as it would from any ordinary 12-gauge shotgun.
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