Just over an hour be­fore a 14-year-old school­girl walked in­to her home and found her grand­moth­er dead, Debe res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing two peo­ple fight­ing.

Neigh­bours of Si­ta Jages­sar, 63, said they saw a rel­a­tive run to the gate of their Clarkia Dri­ve, Welling­ton Road home scream­ing for help on Tues­day evening.

Bar­rack­pore po­lice re­port­ed that they re­spond­ed to a re­port of homi­cide around 3.45 pm on Tues­day.

When a team of of­fi­cers ar­rived, they saw Ja­gas­sar, a moth­er of three, ly­ing on the floor in her liv­ing room with sev­er­al chop wounds on her face. The school­girl told po­lice she had just re­turned home from school and found her grand­moth­er dead.

De­tec­tives from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three, re­spond­ed and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al peo­ple.

And while in­ves­ti­ga­tors may have some the­o­ries on what hap­pened, they have not yet es­tab­lished a mo­tive or ar­rest­ed any­one.

There were no fam­i­ly mem­bers at Jages­sar’s home yes­ter­day and neigh­bours told Guardian Me­dia they went to Port-of-Spain.

Jages­sar’s child­hood friend, Param­day Balchan, vis­it­ed the home yes­ter­day af­ter she on­ly learned of the killing on CNC3 News.

“I knew her since child­hood. We born and grew up to­geth­er in Co­conut Dri­ve, Cross Cross­ing, San Fer­nan­do and then she got mar­ried and came here,” Balchan said.

She last saw Jages­sar a month ago and they shared a meal to­geth­er. All seemed well with Jages­sar, so the way she died, chopped on her face, was shock­ing, Balchan said.

“She was a good per­son, noth­ing to say why any­one would do her that. I am so sor­ry.”

Un­der­tak­ers took Jages­sar’s body to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for an au­top­sy.

—Kevon Felmine

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