RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

A man who po­lice said had been want­ed for mur­der was killed dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing at Wharf Trace, Mara­cas St Joseph, ear­ly yes­ter­day.

Po­lice claimed he chopped and wound­ed a po­lice of­fi­cer.

How­ev­er, rel­a­tives are claim­ing that Ri­car­do Ram­sumair, al­so known as Dan, was am­bushed in­side of his house and al­leged­ly shot and killed by a po­lice of­fi­cer.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 3.30 am po­lice­men from Homi­cide Re­gion 2, led by Cpl Jones and oth­er of­fi­cers were on en­quiries along Wharf Trace, Mara­cas St Joseph, when they ap­proached a house.

The re­port said one of the of­fi­cers was at­tacked by Ram­sumair, 31. Ram­sumair, po­lice said had been want­ed for the mur­der of Dou­glas El­lie in St Au­gus­tine on Oc­to­ber 19, 2020.

One of the of­fi­cers shot Ram­sumair. He and the in­jured of­fi­cer were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex. Ram­sumair died. Se­nior of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the scene and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Dur­ing a vis­it to the area yes­ter­day and speak­ing with mem­bers of the me­dia Ram­sumair’s com­mon-law-wife Shaki­ra John claimed the po­lice of­fi­cers forced their way in­to the house and as Ram­sumair walked out of the bed­room he was shot.

“The po­lice came in and ran­sacked the house. They said they were look­ing for a red mo­bile cell­phone but they got none and Dan had no cell­phone as the po­lice had tak­en his away from him about two months ago,” she said.

She added: “As Dan walked out of the bed­room one of the of­fi­cers shot him and he fell on an­oth­er of­fi­cer and with the fall the couch broke down with him on top of the po­lice. There was no chop­ping. Dan did not chop any po­lice of­fi­cer. He was not armed with any­thing.”

Ram­sumair’s moth­er Ly­dia lament­ed how the po­lice left Dan’s five chil­dren with­out a fa­ther.

John de­scribed her son as a kind and lov­ing in­di­vid­ual.