KEVON FELMINE and AN­NA-LISA PAUL

Three peo­ple were gunned down be­tween Fri­day night and yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Chi­nese busi­ness­man was killed in San Juan on Fri­day night by gun­men, while yes­ter­day, the body of a man was dis­cov­ered in Bar­rack­pore, and a third man was called out of his home and gunned down in Cara­po.

Se­cu­ri­ty finds man bul­let-rid­dled body on road­side

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are yet to de­ter­mine the mo­tive for the mur­der of a man whose body was found on the road­side in Bar­rack­pore yes­ter­day.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered a na­tion­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card on the body which be­longed to one Khan­ta Ram­dass, 43. Po­lice were still work­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of the body and find the vic­tim’s ad­dress by yes­ter­day evening.

A re­port stat­ed that Her­itage Se­cu­ri­ty con­tact­ed the Bar­rack­pore and Pe­nal po­lice sta­tions around 5.15 am and re­port­ed see­ing the body of a man ly­ing mo­tion­less at the side of Mud Plant Road, off Wil­son Road, Bar­rack­pore.

Pe­nal con­sta­bles Per­sad and Jaglal re­spond­ed to the scene, meet­ing Her­itage Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel and two Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd (ASSL) es­tate con­sta­bles. The ASSL con­sta­bles re­port­ed they were on mo­bile pa­trol du­ty at 5 am in a marked com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle. As they drove along Mud Plant Road, they no­ticed the body in some bush­es at the side of the road­way. The two of­fi­cers said they con­tact­ed their su­per­vi­sor, who then con­tact­ed the po­lice.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the body lay on its stom­ach and had sev­er­al gun­shot wounds. PC Ra­moutar and WPC Valdez from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions: Re­gion Three and Crime Scene Unit col­lect­ed six 9mm spent shells, one pro­jec­tile, one emp­ty brown wal­let, and one brown wal­let con­tain­ing the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card. They al­so bagged the vic­tim’s hand to aid in fur­ther iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Daniel ex­am­ined the body, and un­der­tak­ers took it to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary for keep­ing un­til a trans­fer to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, for an au­top­sy.

Speak­ing at her home in Bar­rack­pore, Ram­dass’ sis­ter, Vashti Toolsie, said she was in the yard when po­lice ar­rived at her broth­er’s home around 8 am. Toolsie asked why they were look­ing for Ra­madass, think­ing there was a mi­nor is­sue, but news of her broth­er’s death fol­lowed.

She strug­gled to con­tain her emo­tions as she re­called walk­ing to the scene with her son and hus­band and see­ing Ram­dass’ blood.

“I do not know who want­ed to kill him. My broth­er nev­er did any­thing wrong. He was al­ways hard­work­ing and nev­er in any­body’s way,” Toolsie said.

She ad­mit­ted that Ram­dass, a con­struc­tion work­er, smoked drugs but nev­er sold them. Toolsie said he was a lov­ing and help­ful man who nev­er stole from any­one. Toolsie last saw him around 10 am Fri­day when she called him over for a meal of dasheen and chick­en. Her son saw him around 7 pm on Fri­day. No one had seen him since, and calls to his phone went unan­swered.

Toolsie plead­ed with her broth­er’s killer: “Put down the gun, please. Do not do that. You do not give peo­ple life, so do not kill peo­ple.”

She warned that God was see­ing every­thing they do.

Cara­po man lured out of home and gunned down

Mean­while, in a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, a Cara­po man was killed this morn­ing af­ter be­ing lured out of his home by gun­men.

Shamar “Sha­mi” James was shot on the road­way at Uni­ty Lane, Cara­po, Ari­ma, around 6.45 am yes­ter­day

Re­ports in­di­cate the 32-year-old was asleep when he was awak­ened by some­one call­ing his name. He walked out wear­ing on­ly un­der­wear.

It is al­leged that gun­men then opened fire on James who col­lapsed on the road.

As James be­gan crawl­ing on his bel­ly to es­cape his killers, it was re­port­ed that the gun­men fol­lowed him and con­tin­ued shoot­ing.

Po­lice of­fi­cers found him ly­ing in a pool of blood. An as­sort­ment of spent am­mu­ni­tion was found on the scene.

James’s fa­ther, Ter­rence James, de­clined to speak with re­porters yes­ter­day as he re­mained in shock over his son’s mur­der.

Chi­nese busi­ness­man killed

The two mur­ders fol­low the killing of Chi­nese busi­ness­man Bing Zhu Zhang, 49, at his gro­cery in San Juan on Fri­day night.

Short­ly af­ter ban­dits gunned down a Zhang in San Juan on Fri­day night dur­ing a botched rob­bery, po­lice shot and killed one of the as­sailants.

Bing Zhu Zhang, 49, was the own­er of Gold­en City Su­per­mar­ket, Sil­ver Mill, San Juan.

Po­lice of­fi­cers re­spond­ing to the shoot­ing were able to track the three sus­pects who re­port­ed­ly en­tered the San Juan Riv­er af­ter shoot­ing Zhang.

It is re­port­ed that as of­fi­cers searched the area, one of the sus­pects al­leged­ly fired at them.

Re­turn­ing fire in keep­ing with the Use of Force Pol­i­cy, the of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly killed the sus­pect dur­ing the ex­change.

Of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly re­cov­ered one Glock pis­tol, one mag­a­zine, and 12 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion on the sus­pect, who re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

Zhang re­port­ed­ly closed his gro­cery around 10 pm and went to drop off an em­ploy­ee at home in Barataria on Fri­day.