Rhon­dor Dowlat

A Cen­tral Bank em­ploy­ee is be­ing hailed a hero as he sac­ri­ficed his life for his wife, an at­tor­ney, when gun­men stormed in­to his in-laws home at Cara­pichaima on Thurs­day night ask­ing specif­i­cal­ly for her.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 7.10 pm, two masked men, one armed with a gun, broke in­to the house of the at­tor­ney's 80-year-old rel­a­tive and de­mand­ed that he tell them where she is.

The men then went to the up­stairs area of the house where they at­tempt­ed to go in a bed­room where Dar­ren Nand­lal and his wife were in at the time.

The woman, po­lice said, on see­ing the men, ran to her hus­band who shield­ed her from them and as the gun­men at­tempt­ed to en­ter the room Nand­lal pushed the door to­wards them forc­ing one of the gun­men to fire a sin­gle shot.

The bul­let, po­lice said, fa­tal­ly struck Nand­lal in the head. The men then ran out of the house and es­caped.

Nand­lal, 32, was a fi­nan­cial ex­am­in­er at the Cen­tral Bank of T&T in Port-of-Spain.

Po­lice said noth­ing was tak­en from the house and there­fore they be­lieve that the mo­tive was a hit.

"When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the area on Fri­day morn­ing, neigh­bours said they were shocked and shak­en with fright to re­alise that the area, which is usu­al­ly crime free is now be­ing "over­tak­en by crim­i­nals."