Shot dead in his bed

Ramdial and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter and 16-yearold son, both of whom were locked in other rooms in the house, were unharmed. It was reported that the killers then jumped a wall and made good their escape in a vehicle parked nearby. Sieunarine is the 399th person murdered in this country for this year. A shaken relative told Newsday, “All I heard was one man asking the other, ‘the man dead’ after the shots were fired.

They came for him and that can’t be right because he did no one anything.

He was a hard-working man who took care of his family.” Surveillance cameras are installed on the property and officers are hoping to obtain video footage to assist in their investigations.

Police are working on the theory that a dispute over land may have led to Sieunarine’s murder.

However, what relatives are describing as a ‘hit’ came as no surprise to them as Sieunarine received several death threats causing him to install surveillanc cameras around his Spike Avenue, Esperanza Road, Couva home.

Yesterday, relatives were busy cleaning the bedroom of Sieunarine’s blood. “For years now Larry was in a quarrel with a man over a piece of land,” said a relative who claimed numerous reports regarding death threats made to Sieunarine were made to the Couva police. Relatives said that in 2014, Sieunarine was shot in the face and suffered a broken jaw. Last year, someone burnt down the trailer of one of Sieunarine’s trucks at Rivulet Road in Couva.

“We tired make report to police but nothing cames out of it,” the relative said. The killers gained entry into the three-bedroom house by breaking a portion of glass pane on the front steel door and unlocking the door knob. Police said one of men wore a ‘hoodie’ jacket and the other wore a mask. Sieunarine’s daughter who was watching television, was herded into a bedroom and locked inside while his son who was awakened by the noise, was locked into another room.

“They woke up Sherry and put her to stand facing the wall. They then shot Larry, who was still asleep, three times in he neck. He dead right on his bed. He didn’t deserve that kind of death,” a relative said. No arrest has been made and investigations are continuing.