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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Witness survives gun attack

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Quick work by Ch­agua­nas CID of­fi­cers might have saved the life of a Rio Claro woman who was shot and dumped in a bam­boo patch yes­ter­day morn­ing.Hair­dress­er Pa­tri­cia Gopeesingh, 45, of San Pe­dro, re­mained se­dat­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, await­ing emer­gency surgery to re­move ten pel­lets from her chest.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the at­tempt­ed mur­der was a hit against Gopeesingh's life that was or­dered from prison. Gopeesingh is a state wit­ness in an up­com­ing tri­al and is ex­pect­ed to tes­ti­fy against a fel­low vil­lager.Around 8.30 am, Gopeesingh was walk­ing along the Ch­agua­nas Main Road, Mon­trose, when three men ab­duct­ed her in an un­marked ve­hi­cle. She was tak­en to a lone­ly area in Chick­land, Freeport, where the men shot her once in the chest with a shot­gun and left her for dead in a bam­boo patch.

De­spite bleed­ing heav­i­ly, Gopeesingh man­aged to crawl to the road­side, where peo­ple from a near­by vil­lage found her and con­tact­ed the po­lice. Supt John­ny Abra­ham and In­sp Ter­rence Williams re­spond­ed and took the in­jured woman to the Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty. Po­lice are ques­tion­ing one sus­pect and con­tin­ue to search for the oth­er ab­duc­tors. Sgt Andy Mo­hammed is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.


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