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Market vendor shot in failed robbery attempt

December 19, 2015 By GuyanaTimes

Police in Berbice are looking for two men who may be able to provide assistance with investigations into the shooting of a New Amsterdam market vendor who was injured on Wednesday night when two men tried to enter his premises.

Injured is Ramesh Parsram, 46, of Palmyra Village, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). Reports are that Parsram was with his wife Sabrina, 40, and other relatives having a family drink under their house when two men were seen lurking outside of the fence. Parsram reportedly left the group and went to investigate, taking with him a plastic chair as he approached the gate.

Loud explosions were heard and Parsram was seen falling to the ground. When relatives rushed to his aid, he was bleeding profusely and appeared to have two gunshot wounds; one to the left side of his chest and the other to the abdomen.

He was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was admitted and placed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Medical sources have confirmed that Parsram was shot twice; to the chest and abdomen. On Friday afternoon, he was transferred from the ICU to a ward at the medical facility after his condition is said to have improved. However, doctors have not been able to remove any of the bullets lodged in his body.

Police are continuing their investigation but according to the Commander of B Division (Berbice), Assistant Commissioner Christopher Griffith, the incident is being treated as an attempted robbery.

The incident took place next door to where a businesswoman was shot to her head on July 6, after five heavily-armed men – four carrying firearms and one with a cutlass – entered her Palmyra grocery store. The men allegedly took away two gold finger rings valued $50,000, $400,000 and US$100 in cash. One man is currently before the court for that robbery.

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