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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Ex-con’s execution linked to drugs

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News Desk
2435 days ago
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Crime Scene Investigators search for bullet casing outside the Naughty Girls Bar in Marabella moments ago, following the killing ex-convict Shazard Abdool.

Crime Scene Investigators search for bullet casing outside the Naughty Girls Bar in Marabella moments ago, following the killing ex-convict Shazard Abdool.

Rishi Ragoonath

Gang­ster Shaz­ad Ab­dool knew some­one want­ed him dead so when he came out of jail last Au­gust he made sure to keep a low pro­file.

How­ev­er, his de­sire to have a time out at a bar near his home on Fri­day proved fa­tal, as three masked gun­men pur­sued him and shot him sev­er­al times about the body. His sis­ters Anisa Rahim and Marisa Rahim, as well as his neigh­bour Bryan Ver­rot, were al­so shot.

Anisa was dis­charged from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day while Marisa, who is preg­nant, re­mained ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the men who shot Ab­dool had a di­rec­tive to kill him. They be­lieve the deaths were linked to the 2015 mur­der of fish­er­man Amit “Sanchez” Sama­roo, 29, who was in­volved in il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty along with Ab­dool. Sama­roo was a known drug and gun deal­er with con­nec­tions to a South Amer­i­can drug car­tel. It is al­leged that lo­cal law en­force­ment of­fi­cers helped Sama­roo to get drug ship­ments in­to the coun­try. These ship­ments were trans­port­ed un­der po­lice guard to dif­fer­ent lo­ca­tions, in­clud­ing Mara­bel­la, where Ab­dool lived.

The po­lice source said Sama­roo was killed af­ter a drug deal went sour in 2015 and a ship­ment worth mil­lions of dol­lars went miss­ing. Every­one who was sus­pect­ed of be­ing part of that op­er­a­tion has been killed since then, the source added.

Apart from the ex­e­cu­tions of every drug deal­er, there were al­so sev­er­al in­no­cent ca­su­al­ties, in­clud­ing Sama­roo’s 19-year-old sis­ter-in-law Kim­ber­ly Mo­hammed.

Sama­roo’s broth­er Karan Tam­bie, 31 and his sis­ter-in-law Pa­tri­cia Toolsie, 24, as well as their friend Ri­car­do Massey, 25, were al­so shot on Sep­tem­ber 13, the night Sama­roo died. The gun­men sprayed the area with bul­lets, hit­ting Util­da Williams, 60, of North Trace, Chatham, her friend Leon Gra­ham, 67, of Ma­haica, Point Fortin and Neil Paul, 27, of Mara­bel­la, all of whom were in­no­cent by­standers.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Fri­day’s ex­e­cu­tion of Ab­dool oc­curred in al­most the same man­ner in which Sama­roo was killed. The gun­men ap­peared not to care about by­standers at the Naughty Girl Bar, which is lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of Union Road and Bat­too Av­enue.

A source who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty said Ab­dool, his sis­ters and Ver­rot were sit­ting on a con­crete bench out­side when a sil­ver Nis­san Wingroad pulled up and three masked men wear­ing hats ran out fir­ing. Ab­dool jumped up from his seat and ran in­to the bar. The gun­men, who had high-pow­ered guns, pur­sued him fir­ing non-stop. The as­sailants then ran back in­to the car and es­caped. The ve­hi­cle was re­cov­ered by po­lice hours lat­er. The iden­ti­ties of the gun­men re­main un­known. At least 24 spent shells were re­cov­ered from the scene of the crime.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.


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