Instead of spending the last night of his trip liming with friends, Canadian citizen Vishnu Narine was shot dead and dumped at the side of the Usine, Ste Madeleine Pond.
Weeping relatives declined to speak to the media yesterday, but police believed Narine, 57, was robbed of the $10,000 he had when he left the family home at St John’s Village, San Fernando.
Relatives told police they last saw Narine alive around 7 pm Thursday when he left to go to the Starlite Recreation Club in Palmyra Village, San Fernando. Around 7.15 am yesterday, however, two men working on a site earmarked for the construction of the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries’ South Regional Office found Narine’s body in a gravel road leading into the pond. They contacted police, who responded and found Narine with a gunshot wound to his face.
Lodrick Headley, who was working nearby, believes the body was dumped there overnight.
“My next co-worker, he was the one who saw the body after he came and parked up here. He called the police and remained here while I was out there. When I came across, I realised there was something on the ground... Every morning we pass here so it had to be something that happened overnight. This is a dead-end right here so perhaps someone dropped the body here,” Headley said.
The body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre, St James, for an autopsy.
Homicide detectives are also investigating the death of a Chaguanas shopkeeper who was shot by bandits yesterday.
A report stated that Ashram Ramnath, 32, was asleep when two bandits broke into his Chandanagore Old Road, Chaguanas, property around 3 am. Ramnath wrestled the bandits but was shot in the chest.