…mother asks for security where commuters wait for transportation
Police have arrested a suspect and impounded a car, PLL 3667, he might have used to drive over and kill 21-year-old Sheema Mangar.
Reports are that the man is believed to have other criminal associations and that detectives are examining the car to find any traces of blood or residue that could allow them to conclusively link the vehicle with the killing.
Mangar, an employee of Demerara Bank Limited, was making her way home on Friday evening and was at North Road and Camp Street waiting for a bus when her blackberry phone was snatched. The 21-year-old gave chase as the robber entered a waiting car.
Eyewitness reports are that she placed herself in front of the vehicle in an effort to stop the thief, but was run over and dragged several feet, from North Road to Church Street, as the car sped away.
Public-spirited citizens rushed her to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and later she was transferred to St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital where she died on Saturday.
Meanwhile, when the Guyana Chronicle visited her family last evening, the girl’s mother Radica Thakoor, said she is glad that the authorities have made some progress in their investigations.    She also made an appeal for the relevant officials to put necessary security measures in place to avoid incidents to the one in which her daughter’s life was snuffed out.
Thakoor said, “They can put lights where people have to be to get transportation and have more patrols or something…now that this happen, we don’t want it to happen to some other person’s child.”
She added that the loss of her only daughter has been a big blow to the family, especially to her brother Jason.
“We want to know what the motive was,” her father, Lalbachan Mangar, said.
He added that his daughter was robbed of another phone earlier this year.
Additionally, it is unclear whether or not the 21-year-old knew her assailant.