10 years old Mervyn Barran and Bemchand Barran were shot "execution style" while catching shrimp
Post Elections Violence
The Barran family
Relatives yesterday said
the bodies of Bemchand Barran, 43, a fisherman and labourer of Enterprise
Squatting Area; his 10-year-old son Morvin
(a pupil of Enterprise Primary
School), and Dhanpaul Jagdeo, 26, a labourer of Non Pariel Housing Scheme,
will leave the Lee's Funeral Parlour at Camp and Lamaha streets, Georgetown at
9:00 hrs for burial at Enterprise cemetery at 16:00 hrs (4.00 p.m.).
Mr. Rahamat Ali,
father-in-law of Jagdeo said Dhanpaul's body will be taken to his home in Non
Pariel before a memorial service at the Enterprise Baptist Church at 16:00
hours (4.00 p.m.).
He said he wished to make it clear that if mourners want to march with the
body from the Coldingen junction, using the access road to Non Pariel, he
would have no problem with that.
The bodies of Bemchand and
Morvin Barran will also be transported to the East Coast by hearse and taken
to their home in Enterprise Squatting Area for a service according to Hindu
rites.
At the end of the two
services, all three bodies will be interred at the Enterprise cemetery.
A top Police team in continuing investigations into the killing of the three.
May, 10, 2001
Fish vendor shot dead
yards away from home
- Police
hunt suspect
BY AMANDA WILSON
A 29-YEAR-OLD Albouystown, Georgetown fish vendor was early yesterday
morning shot dead a few yards from his home and cops are hunting his
assailant.
Dead is David Kissondai
of Lot 143 Copper Street, Albouystown. He was shot in the region of his
neck at around 05:00 hrs.
A Police statement
yesterday said the suspect is Mark Anthony Adams called
"Jesus" or "Tun" and that he is also wanted in
connection with another murder, which occurred in the same community, and a
series of robberies.
The assailant was also
involved in a shootout with the Police on Tuesday in Albouystown but managed
to escape, the statement added.
The dead man's family
related the events leading up to David's death.
His older sister, Gowrie
Harricharran, known as "Simone", said every morning she, David and
their sister, Radica Kamal, would leave home at around 05:00 hrs for Meadow
Bank wharf to purchase stock.
The three siblings operate
a fish stall at Bourda Market, Georgetown and normally travel to the wharf by
taxi.
Harricharran said she and
Kissondai were approaching the vehicle when a man, armed with a gun,
approached them.
"He was aiming the
gun at us and I started running and screaming `Thief! Thief!' He was standing
on James Street by a shop before he come up to us", the woman recalled.
Harricharran said she was
running towards her house to call the Police when she heard a gunshot.
"After I called the
Police, I came back outside and saw David lying on the ground. The Police took
close to 25 minutes before they came", she said.
David's younger sister,
Kamal, said she was already in the car waiting on her siblings when she heard
her sister screaming.
"After I heard the
gunshot, I came out the car and saw David lying on the ground and the man who
killed him pointed the gun at me and asked, `Whe de money?'", Kamal said.
She said that she threw
her bag, which had about $30,000 and other valuables and documents at her
attacker and he ran away.
"He shoot him, then
ask for the money. What is happening? He had no children", a distraught
Kamal remarked.
David's mother, Doris
Kissondai, said she was at their gate waiting for the taxi to drive off when
her son was shot.
"I get up every
morning to lock the gate after they leave. I was standing at the gate to see
them get into the taxi and leave when I heard Simone started screaming `Thief!
Thief!' and then I heard a gunshot", she recalled.
"They always
threatening my children. It's been three years now that they have been
threatening them. I would like the Government to do something because me and
my other children are still living here", she said.
The family believes that
Adams, who lives in the neighbourhood, has been observing their morning
activities for quite some time.
Georgetown Hospital
officials yesterday said David, who was shot once, was pronounced dead on
arrival by doctors on duty.
The Police are asking
members of the public to assist them in capturing Adams.
The release said anyone
knowing his whereabouts or who may have information in relation to the murders
and robberies can contact the nearest Police Station or call telephone numbers
- 226-6869, 225-3650, 226-1839, 227-2128, 225-3052, 226-7065, 226-0449,
226-1326, 225-5401, 225-2683 or 225-2317.
The statement stressed
that all information received will be "treated with the strictest of
confidentiality".