Corentyne fatal shooting…
– post mortem results
GOVERNMENT pathologist Dr. Vivikanand Brijmohan yesterday revealed that United States based, Rooparine Ramodit, who was killed less
than twenty four hours after he returned to the land of his birth, died as a result of  “laceration to the abdominal arteries”. Brijmohan performed an autopsy on the remains at the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary yesterday.
The injury was sustained due to a gun shot wound, which resulted in shock and haemorrhage.
A senior police source told this newspaper that the four men held for questioning on Thursday, remain in police custody.
Meanwhile, the widow Loopwattie Ramodit is currently making arrangements to have her husband’s remains embalmed so that it can be
transshipped to his adopted land – the United States – for burial.
On Wednesday, less than twenty fours after he returned to Guyana, Ramodit, 59, was fatally wounded at Lot 117 Seventh Street, Clifton
Settlement, Port Mourant, on the Corentyne Coastline, where he had earlier struggled with the gunman who had attempted to force him
into the house with other members of the household.
He resisted, holding on instead to the barrel of the revolver which, when fired, caused him to sustain injury to the lower right side
of his abdomen. Bleeding profusely, the man was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His wife, Loopwattie, related to the Guyana Chronicle that it was at her insistence that they made the trip to Guyana, after an
absence of eighteen 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’, referring to the
sudden demise of her husband of thirty five years.