Pensioner found with throat slashed
– Son, two others arrested
The son of a 76-year-old man who was found with his throat slashed in his Lot 61 Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Sunday night, has been taken into custody, as police continue to investigate the pensioner’s
The house in which David Ramkissoon (inset) body was found.
death.
The body of David Ramkissoon aka “Shortman”, a father of five, was discovered in a pool of blood in the living room by his son, around 19:30 hrs on Sunday.
The younger Ramkissoon had just returned home after spending the day at a creek on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway with his family. He and two other persons have been arrested.
Initially, detectives were looking at a theory in which the pensioner was killed during a robbery since the house was ransacked and money was reportedly stolen. However, after carefully examining the property, the cops found no forced entry.
A number of other factors caught the cops’ attention, one of which was the fact that a number of envelopes, in which Ramkissoon would have received his pension money, were found in a refrigerator—as if someone was trying to hide something.
The pensioner shared the home with his son, daughter-in-law and the couple’s two children.
One of the motives the police are looking at is that the pensioner was killed over his property. They seemed convinced that the man’s death was not linked to a robbery.
The daughter-in-law recounted that she and her family left home around 11:00 hrs on Sunday to go to the creek.
“We left late and he was telling us is best we stay home and eat lunch then go to the creek, because the traffic to go to the creek gone be bad. He was sitting in the hammock when we left home.”
She added that when they returned home, they noticed that the house was in complete darkness which was a bit strange.
“My husband went in the yard and opened the door and went inside to put on the light and he go in his father room and called for him, but he see the room ransacked and his father wasn’t there, so we went in the other rooms and they were ransacked,” the woman said.
She said that it was when her husband was heading back downstairs that he noticed his father lying in blood and started screaming.
The daughter-in-law said that she and several neighbours rushed into the house and saw Ramkissoon on the floor. She said that she has no idea as to why the police would take her husband in custody since he is innocent and would in no way harm his father.
When asked if she has any idea as to who may want her father-in-law dead, the woman responded in the negative, but claimed that there are a number of young boys who do not work and would frequent the streets.
The police are looking at other motives.