Police capabilities tested in Corentyne power outage murder.

THE recent slaying of 57-year-old Corentyne farmer Pamela Kendall will test the police intelligence capabilities as they attempt to solve the mystery surrounding her senseless demise, which has left relatives and residents of Number 45 Village in shock.Persons have opined that the upsurge in wanton killings may be politically motivated, but no one could provide this newspaper with any facts to support this assertion.

Pamela Kendall was fatally shot at her home whilst preparing dinner during a power outage which had affected the entire East Berbice region just after 19:00 hrs on Thursday night.
The wounded cash-crop farmer/ housewife ran a short distance away in an effort to alert her brother that she had been shot, but collapsed on his bridge and died moments afterwards.

Her husband Deoram Sookchand, called ‘Cake,’ told this reporter that he was having a shower in the lower flat of the two-storey edifice when he was alerted to the screams of his wife of eight years.
He explained that the kitchen and the bathroom adjoined each other, which allowed him to be in close proximity to his wife.

“At the time, the kitchen door was open, but she turned to close it when she was confronted by a bandit who fired a shot. I heard her scream, then an explosion. It was dark, but we had a fluorescent battery lamp which was getting dim, but it still reflected some light. I saw the intruder’s hand, but I stuck myself in a corner of the bathroom. I heard whispering. I knew it was more than one person. One ran up the inward steps to the upper flat, but retraced his steps moments afterwards, before exiting the building and scaling the back fence,” Sookchand related.

“After they left, I screamed, trying to alert the neighbours. By the time I got out of the bath, my wife ran out of the house [and] over to her brother’s property. There she was taken to the Skeldon Hospital, but she died along the way.”

This reporter was reliably informed that apart from the life of Pamela Kendall, no other item of value was taken.

Investigations are continuing.

By Jeune Vankeric

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