HALIFAX—Police have identified the man killed in what they say was a drive-by shooting in Eastern Passage this week.

Jamie Lee Bishop, a 21-year-old from Lunenburg County, was shot and killed while walking with a female on Hornes Rd. in Eastern Passage on Monday around 12:45 p.m.

“We are really needing the public’s help with this one,” said RCMP Cpl. Dal Hutchinson on Wednesday morning.

He said he had few other details to provide about the case.

“Somebody out there knows who is responsible for this. Anyone with information, come forward.”

The RCMP say a passing car stopped and someone inside opened fire on Bishop, who was pronounced dead in hospital.

Hutchinson said in an earier interview this week that the suspect vehicle was described as a black, four-door, older model Chevrolet car.

The car was also last seen turning on Cow Bay Rd. from Hornes Rd.

The scene where the young man was killed overnight was quiet Monday morning. There was no police presence, no police tape and no indication anything had happened along the stretch of road.

“The location itself was not large in the sense that they didn’t have to go into a home, they didn’t have to go through people’s property, they were able to do their investigative work at the scene itself,” Hutchison explained in an interview Monday.

“In this case they were able to get the evidence they needed … in not a very long period of time.”

An autopsy on the victim took take place Monday afternoon.

Michael Latter was walking in the area Monday morning and said his mother lives in the 80-block of Horne’s Rd. near the site where the 21-year-old was walking when he was shot and killed.

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“My mom lives here and my sister was there last night, but they didn’t see anything. They said the cops were here overnight and the road was blocked off,” Latter said in an interview.

“I’m not concerned. Nothing like this has happened around here forever.”

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