Cops still baffled over Mohammed’s murder

WITH no new leads and no arrests, South Homicide Bureau officers remain clueless about the motive behind Monday night’s execution-styled murder of Mala Mohammed, wife of prominent Princes Town supermarket proprietor “Uncle Khalid” (Khalid Mohammed). Police sources told Newsday ten persons were interrogated during investigations, but no new or strong leads nor motive for the killing was established. Meanwhile, the murdered woman’s family continues to struggle to come to terms with the violent, unexpected loss. Mohammed is expected to be buried today after a funeral ceremony at the house of mourning at 3 pm thence to the Iere Village Cemetery.

Among those persons questioned, police sources said, were the victim’s husband, who was in Miami at the time of the murder. He returned home on Tuesday evening. Efforts by Newsday to interview Khalid Mohammed yesterday proved futile. Sources said the businessman was interviewed by officers at a relative’s home in Princes Town, hours after he arrived in the country on Tuesday. Mohammed was visiting his son in Miami when his wife was executed in the driveway of her home, shortly before midnight on Monday. Homicide detective Insp Fitzgerald George and Sgt Errol Ramdath of the Princes Town CID are continuing investigations.