A forensic ballistic report done on the weapon which killed PC Govindra Ramroop at the Guapo Police Station five months ago is now under scrutiny by the Homicide Bureau.
In an interview yesterday, Ramroop’s widow, Susan Roopnarine-Ramroop, said she was informed last week that the ballistic report was completed.
“I don’t have much information and I don’t want to say too much about it but I do know that it was handed over to homicide (bureau),” Roopnarine-Ramroop said. The distraught woman said she wanted closure.
Last month during the funeral of slain police constable Anson Benjamin, Roopnarine-Ramroop confronted National Security Minister Edmund Dillon outside the church and begged him not to allow her husband's death to become a cold case.
She told Dillon that she was suspicious of the circumstances under which her husband died. Roopnarine-Ramroop added that the officer who shot her husband was still on active duty and had never apologised to her.
Investigators were also reluctant to speak and on several occasions told the family that they were awaiting the ballistic report. Dillon promised to look into the case within two weeks. He also appointed a liaison officer to speak to the family.
Homicide officers confirmed yesterday that the matter was under investigation.
Last November 5, Ramroop, a Special Reserve Police officer, attached to the La Brea Rapid Response Unit, was killed by a colleague at the Guapo Police Station.
Some South Western Division officers labelled his death an accident, saying one of Ramroop’s colleagues was clearing his gun when it discharged. Speaking at Ramroop’s funeral, acting Commissioner Stephen Williams told the media that firearms do not discharge accidentally and that an investigation was under way.