Ex-murder accused killed
The house in which Corentyne businessman Patrick Mohabir was shot
The house in which Corentyne businessman Patrick Mohabir was shot

 

A BELVEDERE, Corentyne businessman was gunned down late Wednesday evening at his home in what is believed to be a hit.Dead is 42-year-old Patrick Mohabir of Lot 9 Belvedere Village, Corentyne, who operates a supermarket at the bottom flat of his premises. He succumbed to his injuries at the Anamayah Memorial Hospital at Belvedere, Corentyne.
The man’s distraught wife, Shabeena Ahamad, told the Guyana Chronicle, she believes that her husband was the target, since his assailants entered and fired a single shot in his direction, which caught him in the left foot, and also inflicted a chop to his shoulder.
They then left immediately, after taking with them two cellular phones that were being charged in the bedroom.

Dead: Berbice businessman, Patrick Mohabir
Dead: Berbice businessman, Patrick Mohabir

Ahamad said she offered the men money and anything they needed so that they would not hurt her family, but during the five-minute ordeal, the men said nothing. At the time of the incident, the couple was at home with four of their six children.
Mohabir’s wife said the men were slimly built, masked, and armed with a gun and cutlass. They gained access into the house through a window on the right side of the building, but escaped through the back door.
She said that after securing their business, they retired upstairs for the night around 23:30 hrs. She was awakened by her husband, who asked her to check on the children in the living room as he thought they were still up and playing. “I got up to check what the noise was about,” Ahamad said, “but as soon as I open the bedroom door, two men were standing in front of me.”
She said she pleaded with them to take whatever they wanted and offered them money. At that point, her husband also got up, Ahamad said, after realising what was happening.
It was while struggling with the man with the gun that he was shot, while the one with the cutlass dealt him a chop to his body.
Ahamad said that while the men were on their way out, she managed to pull the mask off one of them, but he bent his head and quickly escaped through the back door. She immediately called the police, who arrived promptly, but the men had already made their escape.
When this publication arrived at the scene, family, friends and customers were gathered at the home of the businessman and his family to express their sympathy, while others were assisting to clean the blood-stained bedroom and blood trail from the bedroom to the entrance of the front gate in the lower flat. Many expressed shock and disbelief over the tragic incident.
Ahamad described her husband as a “caring father” who had no issues with anyone. She said they have been operating the business, Shabeena and Sons Supermarket, for over three years.
Meanwhile, Mohabir and several others had been charged and remanded to prison over the murder of an ex-police officer. This publication was told that Mohabir was committed in the Magistrate’s Court and was on remand for close to five years, but he was later acquitted of the charge. The police are investigating Wednesday night’s killing.

 

By Nafeeza Yahya

 

 

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