A day after the bullet-riddled body of Carlos “Jason” Persaud, 31, of 6 Ram’s Canefield Drive, Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was found in the Le Repentir Cemetery, Georgetown, relatives are clueless as to the motive for his brutal murder. The body bore marks of violence and it seemed as if Persaud managed to put up a fight before he was shot and killed.
Relatives said yesterday that they have so many questions to ask but are hoping that the police make a breakthrough in the murder of their loved one.
At his residence yesterday, there wasn’t a dry eye as relatives, friends and neighbours gathered to console each other. There they talked of the kind of person he was, highly regarded as a ‘family and home’ man, who hardly ventured out to party and drink with friends.
Persaud was a contractor and manned a small grocery shop and an internet café with his wife, Anita Persaud.
A close family friend, Balram Balraj, yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that on Friday Persaud left home on an errand in the city at about 17:30hrs and never returned home.
Balraj, also a neighbour, said that he had gone to purchase some stock for the shop, and his wife was in contact with him.
At one time he told his wife that he was on his way home and she fell asleep.
She woke up an hour later and dialled his cellular phone, but got no answer.
She checked the house for him and did not find his car parked in the yard. She quickly telephoned his mother and siblings and they began searching for him. They even reported him missing to the police.
They re-grouped and continued to search for Persaud early Saturday morning when they received a telephone call from the police stating that a body was found in the city.
Anita Persaud showed up and identified her husband’s body.
Yesterday relatives were still in great shock, some were in denial, while others cried openly, but could not say why the man was murdered.
Persaud’s wife had gone yesterday to visit the police to get an update on his murder. Relatives said she is taking the news very badly and is in deep grief.
Persaud was the father of Ashley, seven, and the foster parent of three other girls, Savita, Ambika and Anamika.
The body is at the Lyken Funeral Home awaiting a post mortem.
Persaud’s motor car, PMM 2625, was earlier on Saturday morning found abandoned by the police at ‘C’ Field, Sophia, following reports made by residents in the area.
Investigations are in progress.