Kevon Felmine

While their neigh­bours cel­e­brat­ed two wed­dings in their com­mu­ni­ty, a Fe­lic­i­ty cou­ple suf­fered a trag­ic end af­ter be­ing gunned down up­on re­turn­ing home from the movies on Sun­day night.

The blood­ied corpses of Nar­ine Kalpoo, 59, and his com­mon-law wife, Lutch­min Jag­ger­nath, 51, fell me­tres apart from each oth­er af­ter they were am­bushed by a gun­man who lay in wait­ing for them, the dis­cov­ery of which quick­ly turned the vil­lage cel­e­bra­tions in­to mourn­ing as neigh­bours gath­ered at the cou­ple's Kalpoo Av­enue home to find out how they died.

Po­lice said the cou­ple had ear­li­er gone to Movi­eTowne at Price Plaza, Ch­agua­nas, with Jag­ger­nath's 18-year-old daugh­ter, Tra­cy, and her friend. On re­turn­ing home, they dropped Tra­cy and the friend at near­by Pierre Road.

On reach­ing their house around 11 pm, Jag­ger­nath was about to open the gate while Kalpoo sat in his black Nis­san Almera when a gun­man emerged and opened fire on them. Kalpoo was shot sev­er­al times in the head and chest while Jag­ger­nath, who at­tempt­ed to run, was shot in the head.

Po­lice be­lieve the gun­man came to ex­e­cute a hit on Kalpoo's life and Jag­ger­nath was killed be­cause she was a wit­ness to her hus­band's killing. How­ev­er, they had no sus­pect or mo­tive for the mur­ders.

By the time po­lice and am­bu­lance ar­rived, Kalpoo, a fa­ther of two, was al­ready dead, slumped in the dri­ver's seat, while Jag­ger­nath, a moth­er of three, was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

In try­ing to piece to­geth­er what may have led to the cou­ple's killings, rel­a­tives said Kalpoo re­cent­ly re­ceived a sub-con­tract at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, but they could not say whether it had any­thing to do with his death. Kalpoo had two pre­vi­ous mar­riages and five years ago he en­tered a com­mon-law re­la­tion­ship with Jag­ger­nath, who is the wife of his for­mer em­ploy­ee In­dar Jag­ger­nath.

In­dar said he was at sea on Sun­day and on­ly re­turned to shore yes­ter­day morn­ing. He said he could not think why some­one would have killed the cou­ple. Tra­cy lives in the same res­i­dence as In­dar.

Kalpoo's rel­a­tives were al­so baf­fled as to why they were killed, es­pe­cial­ly since they were not robbed. A male rel­a­tive said he was asleep and was awak­ened by the ex­plo­sions, but thought it was fire­works from the wed­dings. He said the com­mu­ni­ty was usu­al­ly qui­et with rare "duck thieves" and small fights among neigh­bours.

"It is a re­al shock be­cause if some­one beats you, you and that per­son had an in­ci­dent that you fought about, but when there is a shoot­ing, you must wor­ry about what is go­ing on in the area," the rel­a­tive said.