Sascha Wil­son

“They shouldn’t ah kill my hus­band,” cried Mala Ba­j­nath-Singh yes­ter­day as she re­called how her hus­band Nar­ine Singh was fa­tal­ly shot on their bed around mid­night on Sun­day.

The moth­er of one told re­porters her hus­band’s mur­der has left her con­fused and heart­bro­ken as he was a good per­son and he had no en­e­mies.

She was for­tu­nate to es­cape un­hurt as she was ly­ing next to him on the bed at the time of the shoot­ing.

The as­sailants stood out­side their home at Char­lo Vil­lage in Pe­nal, and shot Singh through the bed­room win­dow.

She and her hus­band lived in a down­stairs apart­ment of a two-storey fam­i­ly home.

The bed is close to the win­dow. She re­called that they went to sleep around 9 pm on Sun­day. But, she said that at mid­night, they awoke af­ter hear­ing a noise.

With tears rolling down her cheeks, she re­called, “Some­body, was open­ing the lou­vres. I was right next to him (hus­band). As I tell you, as he (hus­band) say who is it, you on­ly hear the gun­shot.”

She heard about five gun­shots, but she did not see the sus­pects and noth­ing was stolen. CCTV footage, how­ev­er, showed two peo­ple run­ning from the scene.

She said her hus­band was bleed­ing from wounds to his rib area and he died on their bed. She did not think the as­sailants were try­ing to break in to their house.

Baf­fled as to why her hus­band was killed, she sobbed, “I have no idea. He don’t both­er no­body. Every­body in the area say he is a qui­et man. He is talk with every­body.”

She said her hus­band nei­ther drank al­co­hol nor smoked cig­a­rettes.

Ba­j­nath-Singh said once her hus­band was not work­ing, they were al­ways with each oth­er and did every­thing to­geth­er.

Re­count­ing how they spent the day to­geth­er on Sun­day, she said, “Over 30 years me and he live to­geth­er, and we nev­er ar­gue, we nev­er cuss one an­oth­er. We al­ways live good. I al­ways tell my fam­i­ly he al­ways with me and he al­ways liv­ing good. It hard...they shouldn’t do that, that so wrong.”

Lament­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion, she said there were too many mur­ders in the coun­try and the per­pe­tra­tors not be­ing ar­rest­ed.

“Crime not good at all, too much ah thing go­ing wrong, too much ah thing and noth­ing be­ing done about it. Peo­ple just killing peo­ple and they get­ting away with it and that is not nice. You mur­der some­body and get away, no, and that is what is hap­pen­ing right now in this coun­try. It is un­fair. An in­no­cent man just die just so, that is not nice,” she said.

Ex­press­ing a lack of con­fi­dence in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, Ba­j­nath-Singh added, “I don’t think I go get no an­swers. I don’t think so, no, not at all... I telling you that be­cause plen­ty peo­ple dy­ing. I does be watch­ing...and I does not see noth­ing come out of it. We not get­ting enough jus­tice in this coun­try, not at all.”

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 have not yet as­cer­tained a mo­tive.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.