Lor­raine Sam­lal stood trem­bling yes­ter­day af­ter­noon when she saw her fa­ther Rud­hanath Sam­lal ly­ing dead on the ground with a bul­let wound to the chest.She said she nev­er thought her fa­ther would have suf­fered such a bru­tal death.Sam­lal, 52, a se­cu­ri­ty guard at Franklyn and Er­rol's Elec­tri­cal Ser­vices and Ma­chine Shop in Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, was shot dur­ing a rob­bery.Re­ports said around 4 pm, an em­ploy­ee of the com­pa­ny re­turned to the com­pound with $50,000 he had just with­drawn from a bank at Gulf City and gave the mon­ey to Sam­lal to take to the of­fice.

As Sam­lal took the bag, a gun­man walked up to him and shot him once in the chest and es­caped with the mon­ey.The Emer­gency Health Ser­vices re­spond­ed but Sam­lal died while be­ing at­tend­ed to.Po­lice of­fi­cers led by ACP Don­ald De­noon and Se­nior Supt Ce­cil San­tana vis­it­ed the area and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al peo­ple.Po­lice said they be­lieved the rob­bers had been mon­i­tor­ing the em­ploy­ee at the bank and fol­lowed him back to the com­pound.Lor­raine, 21, a bio­chem­istry stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, said her fa­ther was the sole bread­win­ner at home.She said: "He was the most gen­er­ous per­son I knew. If he had to give you the last he had, he would give you. He was a very kind per­son.

"I nev­er thought this would have hap­pened. I know Trinidad has a lot of crime, but I nev­er thought this would hap­pen to us."Last night he was talk­ing and say­ing wed­ding soon, be­cause my broth­er is go­ing to get mar­ried," she added."They did not set a date, but he was just ex­cit­ed that the wed­ding was com­ing."Fight­ing her tears while her moth­er Vi­jan­ti­mala Sam­lal, 48, screamed, Lor­raine warned her fa­ther's killer that even if the law did not catch them, God would bring jus­tice.She said: "We got a phone call say­ing that my dad got shot. He went to take out mon­ey and that is what we heard.

"We called the sec­re­tary and she said the am­bu­lance came. When we called back again, they said the at­ten­dants in the am­bu­lance said they could not do any­thing again and they had to leave him there."The mur­der took place just two hours af­ter San­tana plead­ed with the pub­lic to be cau­tious when with­draw­ing large sums of mon­ey from the banks.San­tana made the com­ments af­ter cus­toms clerk Fran­cis Daniel was robbed at his Corali­ta Dri­ve, Pleas­antville, home af­ter with­draw­ing $19,000 from a bank in Pointe-a-Pierre on Wednes­day. Po­lice said the sus­pects had marked Daniel at the bank and fol­lowed him home where they took his keys at gun­point and stole the mon­ey from un­der his car seat. Three men in their mid 20s were held in Mon Re­pos less than 30 min­utes af­ter that rob­bery.