21 murders in two months
- five women among victims
Three execution-style killings and the still-unsolved strangling of two elderly women are among some 21 murders that have occurred in the first two months of this year.
Trevor Abrams
Executed: Patricia Sanasie
Twelve of the killings occurred in January, while statistics compiled by Kaieteur News indicated that nine more occurred last month.
These statistics indicate that of the 21 killings, three were “crimes of passion,” 10 were due to disputes, three were execution-style killings, one was a sex-crime and four are still undetermined.
Four of the victims were shot, nine stabbed, two strangled, two beaten to death and two succumbed from burns.
Five women have been slain so far.
Still baffling police is the execution-style killing of Patricia Sanasie, 43, wife of auto dealer, Deokaran Sanasie. She was gunned down on January 12 outside her Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara home.
The shooting came almost a year after her husband survived a similar attempt on his life.
That execution-style killing was followed by a similar murder on February 18.
Airmax Vulcanizing Tyre Shop owner Randolph Singh was sitting with two employees opposite his South Road premises when a gunman walked up to the trio and riddled the businessman. One of his employees was shot in the elbow. The gunman reportedly escaped on a motorcycle.
At present, police are working round-the clock to solve last Friday’s execution-style killing of 32-year-old Trevor Abrams. He was ambushed in broad daylight by two gunmen on the East Bank Demerara Public Road, in the vicinity of Little Diamond.
Abrams’ murder occurred just 11 days after an almost similar, brazen killing on the East Bank of Demerara.
Ex-policeman Beepat Taijram had stopped his minibus at Grove, East Bank Demerara, when two passengers held him at gunpoint and demanded his gold chain.
Beepat Taijram
Dead: Randolph Singh
When he resisted, one of the men shot the 32-year-old. When Taijram fled from his bus, the other gunman shot him in the back.
The gunmen escaped with the slain man’s chain. His killers are still at large. Police had initially said that they were treating the attack as a robbery, but now appear to be looking at other motives, due to the victim’s unsavoury past. Taijram was dismissed from the Force on corruption charges and was also in court on an unlicensed weapon charge. He was also arrested in Berbice as an armed robbery suspect.
The murders of two elderly women within an 11-day span are among the New Year’s most heinous killings.
On February 9, the nude body of 67-year-old Ramdai Mohabir, called ‘Aunty Elsie’, was found in her Lot 665 Topo, Albion, Corentyne, Berbice.
A postmortem revealed that the victim, who had lived alone, was raped and strangled.
On February 20, Suroogpattie Ramlakan, 73, called Auntie Carmen, of Richmond Village, Essequibo was found lying on the floor of her two-bedroom home.
Her night dress was pulled above her knees and her neck bore lacerations. A post mortem revealed that she was struck on the head and strangled.
But the postmortem also showed that Ramlakan’s killer had inflicted injuries on the pensioner to apparently trick investigators into believing that she was raped.
Ramdai Mohabir
Police have questioned several people, including the slain woman’s close family members, but are still to make a breakthrough.
And police still don’t know who shot 43-year-old Richard Remington in the head and left him in a clump of bushes in the Christianburg/ Cholmondeley Hill area at Wismar last month.
Remmington’s bloated body was found on February 12, a few days after residents reported hearing gunshots. Police subsequently revealed that Remmington was a suspect in several armed robberies and burglaries.
These included the chopping of a woman at Mahdia and a brutal attack on a Kara Kara family.
