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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Dad of woman shot by ex-husband:

Men need to walk away from failed relationships

by

Sascha Wilson
608 days ago
20231122

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A day af­ter his daugh­ter was al­most mur­dered by her ex-hus­band, a South Oropouche fa­ther called on men to walk away from failed re­la­tion­ships and stop abus­ing women.

“I find men re­al abus­ing women in sit­u­a­tions like this, ... just walk away,” said Bas­deo Ra­j­gob­in dur­ing an in­ter­view at his South Oropouche home be­fore he left to vis­it his daugh­ter, Anis­sa Ra­j­gob­in-Ageemoolar, at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day.

Ra­j­gob­in not­ed that he al­so had a failed mar­riage, but he moved on with his life and took care of his chil­dren. Ra­j­gob­in-Ageemoolar went to Gen­er­al Ac­ci­dent In­sur­ance at the Cross Cross­ing Shop­ping Cen­tre in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day to re­new her ve­hi­cle in­sur­ance. Po­lice said her ex-hus­band Sharaz Ageemoolar fol­lowed her in­to the of­fice and asked to speak to her out­side. When she re­fused, he shot her two times near her shoul­der.

He ran out­side and tried to en­ter a parked white Ti­i­da. Rosario Ramd­han was sit­ting in the back seat. Po­lice said Ramd­han’s rel­a­tive, Ken­ton Moses, who owns the car, was in­side the in­sur­ance of­fice. Moses ran out­side and tried to grab Ageemoolar, but Ageemoolar dis­charged the gun, hit­ting Ramd­han, who stum­bled out of the ve­hi­cle and died.

Ageemoolar es­caped in the car but was found dead in the same car in La Ro­main hours lat­er, in what po­lice be­lieve was a sui­cide.

Ra­j­gob­in said Ageemoolar was abu­sive and ill-treat­ed his daugh­ter dur­ing their 28 years of mar­riage, but his daugh­ter nev­er re­port­ed the abuse to the po­lice.

“I nev­er ex­pect­ed that a hu­man be­ing would do such a thing like that,” he lament­ed.

Wip­ing away tears, Ra­j­gob­in said Ageemoolar even­tu­al­ly asked his daugh­ter for a di­vorce, and the pa­per­work is in the fi­nal stages.

He re­called that his daugh­ter moved in with him about four to five months ago while her two sons, who are in their 20s, re­mained with their fa­ther. The fa­ther said his home was re­cent­ly fire­bombed and then shot at, but he did not know who was re­spon­si­ble. For­tu­nate­ly, nei­ther he nor his daugh­ter was in­jured.

Ex­press­ing con­do­lences to Ramd­han’s fam­i­ly, he said, “I re­al­ly, re­al­ly sor­ry for that fam­i­ly.”

Re­call­ing that fate­ful morn­ing, he said when his daugh­ter was leav­ing home to go to the in­sur­ance com­pa­ny, “some­thing tell me to pray for her”.

He asked God to pro­tect her.

“I came out by the gate and I start­ed to pray for her,” the fa­ther said.

When he saw her on the hos­pi­tal bed af­ter she got shot, he prayed for her to sur­vive.

“I told her not to talk. I just hold her hand and I start­ed to pray for her,” he said.

Ra­j­gob­in-Ageemoolar was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day.

Ramd­han’s fa­ther, Ram­nar­ine Ramd­han, told re­porters that his son had planned to mi­grate with his girl­friend, but he was un­suc­cess­ful in se­cur­ing a US visa.

A rel­a­tive told Guardian Me­dia that Ramd­han’s broth­er was mur­dered in 2018.

Ramd­han’s fa­ther, Ram­nar­ine Ramd­han told re­porters that his son had planned to mi­grate with his girl­friend, but he was un­suc­cess­ful in se­cur­ing a US visa.

A rel­a­tive told Guardian Me­dia that Ramd­han’s broth­er was mur­dered in 2018.


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