Busi­ness­man Richard Ramkissoon suc­cumbed to in­juries he sus­tained dur­ing a home in­va­sion in which his dogs were killed in D'Abadie ear­ly yes­ter­day.

Ramkissoon, the own­er of Su­per­store in Ari­ma, died at Med­ical As­so­ciates Hos­pi­tal, St Joseph, where he had been tak­en for med­ical treat­ment by his sis­ter.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 3 am, Ramkissoon and oth­er mem­bers of his fam­i­ly were asleep at their home at Cres­cent Dri­ve, Mau­si­ca Road, D’Abadie, when he was awak­ened by strange nois­es.

His bed­room door was forced open and six men, armed with guns and cut­lass­es, en­tered and beat him about the body, de­mand­ing cash and valu­ables.

The sus­pects then went to his 18-year-old daugh­ter’s bed­room and forced their way in­side. The ban­dits then gagged and tied up the young woman and ran­sacked her room.

The ban­dits spent ap­prox­i­mate­ly an hour-and-a-half in­side the house and stole cash, jew­el­ry and oth­er valu­ables.

The sus­pects, po­lice said, gained en­try in­to the house by us­ing a lad­der to en­ter a win­dow on the up­per floor.

The fam­i­ly’s two pit­bulls were found dead in the yard. It is sus­pect­ed that they were fed meat laced with poi­son.

Ramkissoon was the fa­ther of two.