… four in police custody
Less than 24 hours after he returned to the land of his birth, Roopnarine Ramodit, 59, was murdered at 117 Seventh Street, Clifton
Settlement , Port Mourant, on the Corentyne, when  he struggled with the gunman who attempted to force him into the house with other
members of the household. He resisted, holding on to the barrel of the revolver. The gun went off and Ramodit was shot in the abdomen. Bleeding profusely, he
was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital, where he died.
His wife, Loopwattie, related to the Guyana Chronicle that it was at her insistence that they made the trip home, after being away
for 18 years.
“We just came for about six days. We were away so long and I was home sick… I did not know this would have been it,” she said.
The family, including three adult children, had migrated to the United States 30 years ago.
Danwattie David, at whose home the visitors are staying, recounted that she, her husband Raymond, and a neighbour had brought Ramodit
and his wife from the Cheddi Jagan International Aiprort shortly after 16:00hrs on Wednesday.
About an hour later, in the bottom flat of the two-storeyed house, Loopwattie said she saw a man outside the door, wearing a mask
with eye-holes and pointing a gun at them. Her husband was outside and then she heard a shot.
Her husband fell to the ground, bleeding profusely, and the gunman and another man ran away.
David said they all screamed on seeing the blood.
“I can’t tell you what we screamed for, but I know we holler. The neighbours came to see what had happened, and they rushed him to
the hospital where the doctor reported that he was dead on arrival.”
The woman recounted too that the police response was quick.
Meanwhile, a senior police officer told the Guyana Chronicle that four men, including a 14-year-old boy and the neighbour, an
epileptic, who had accompanied the Davids to the airport, are in police custody.