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Jul 07, 2015 News
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Police say they are pulling out all the stops as they continue to probe the murder of businessman, Ganesh ‘Boyo’ Ramlall, who was slain by gunmen at his La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara home early on Sunday morning.
So far investigators are treating the matter as a robbery/murder.
Senior official on the west side are tightlipped, only saying that the investigations are in progress.
However, close associates of the businessman are also making desperate efforts to assist in bringing Ramlall’s killers to justice.
They are offering a whopping $5M reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers.
Anyone with information can contact 624-6456 or the nearest police station.
Ramlall, 48, was shot about seven times, including to the head, a few minutes after he had returned to his home Saturday midnight.
Ramlall is the proprietor of the popular Regent Multiplex Mall on Regent Street as well as other business interests.
From all indications, the attack was a robbery, which was prematurely aborted when an alarm was raised by the businessman’s wife, and neighbours began responding.
Neighbours reportedly fired warning shots, but by then Ramlall was already dead and his killers had fled.
A traumatised Monica Ramlall, the businessman’s wife of 24 years, told Kaieteur News that her husband had gone out on Saturday evening to a barbecue and a wake house.
At about midnight, he called and said he was coming home.
The wife said she opened the door and he entered the home. He told her he had brought barbecue chicken for her.
The businessman remained alone downstairs and after grabbing a bite, he went outside to use the outdoor bathroom. It was then that the bandits struck.
His wife recalled hearing shouts.
“I hear Boyo shout “thief, thief!” she said.
There were rapid gunshots and realising that something terrible was happening, the businessman’s wife quickly shut the door at the end of the inner stairway that led from the bottom flat.
By this time, one of the two teenage daughters, who was aroused by the commotion, contacted a relative a few houses away.
A neighbour who heard the gunshots and who is also a licenced firearm holder reportedly fired several shots in the air to scare away the gunmen.
“I called for Boyo but there was no answer,” the neighbour said.
Apparently, his initial intervention caused the bandits to prematurely abandon their mission and escape, but only after they had stripped Ramlall of a gold chain and a band.
They had also snatched a bag which they thought had contained money but later threw it away when they realized that it contained nothing of worth. They also left behind a ring that was on Ramlall’s finger.
The businessman’s wife said when the shooting had died down, she ventured downstairs and saw the back door open and her husband slumped by the doorway. He was motionless and there was blood on the ground.
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