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Aug 21, 2014 News
Police have detained the brother of a onetime murder accused in connection with Monday’s brazen killing of dredge owner Ashook Ragghu. Kaieteur News was told that the suspect was nabbed after the police received footage from surveillance cameras.
This newspaper understands that the suspect is most likely to be charged within the week.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect’s brother was charged with the 2004 murder of a Norton Street businessman.
In 2009 he was also charged with the abduction of a 13-year-old girl with intent to secretly confine her.
Kaieteur News understands that the two bandits, who rode a CG motorcycle, were not wearing helmets at the time, and a police source said surveillance cameras, located nearby, gave investigators “very good” images of the suspects.
A brief police release issued on Tuesday stated that “a suspect in the robbery/murder of businessman Ashook Ragghu which occurred yesterday on Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, has been arrested. He is in police custody assisting with the investigations.”
Ragghu, of Pike Street, Campbellville, was shot in the chest, while his wife, Shyrazadi Ragghu, was shot in the right thigh, at around 14:40 hrs on Monday, after two gunmen on a motorcycle cornered them at the Vlissengen Road and Regent Street traffic light.
The robbers escaped with a bag containing an undisclosed sum of cash and the slain man’s licensed handgun.
Mr. Ragghu has a gold mining operation at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni, and the family recently moved from Berbice to Georgetown.
According to reports, Ragghu had picked up his wife from a city bank and the gunmen, who were apparently trailing the couple, made their move when the victims, heading south along Vlissengen Road, were forced to stop at the traffic light near the Botanical Gardens.
Kaieteur News understands that the gunmen rode up to the couple’s Toyota Carina, PGG 8291, and tried to relieve the businessman of his money. The dredge owner reportedly decided to fight back and the gunmen shot him.
Reports indicate that Mr. Ragghu was unable to get to his firearm since the weapon was in the same money-bag.
Eyewitnesses recalled seeing Mrs. Ragghu screaming in the car with her husband slumped in the driver’s seat.
Kaieteur News understands that a passing taxi driver took the couple to the GPHC where doctors pronounced Ragghu dead. His wife remains hospitalized.
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