Murders and kidnapping over weekend

A Businesswoman Samdaye Rampersad of San Juan was kidnapped and up to press time has not been freed Dead are Nicholas Ramsaroop of Freeport who was beaten and chopped about the body Learie Watson, 43, of Carapichaima who was shot, Sham Gunness of Fullerton Village Cedros, who was stabbed.

The body of Marlon Williams of Tunapuna was found next to his car at the Mucurapo Foreshore.

Maureen Ramkisson, of St Andrews Village Couva was killed in a car crash at the Preysal Flyover and an unidentified, elderly pedestrian died after he was struck by a car at the Diego Martin Highway near Victoria Gardens. Rabindranath Singh, 43 died when his house was destroyed by fire at Wallerfield.

Nicholas Ramsaroop, 25 years old on Friday night was stripped naked, beaten and chopped about the body, bundled into the trunk of his car and taken to Fireburn, Freeport, where he was dumped and left for dead on the side of a lonely road. His girlfriend was also assaulted and left in a lonely area in Carlsen Field, Chase Village, Chaguanas.

Police detectives have since launched a manhunt for the two men.

According to a police report, Ramsaroop of Mc Leod Street, Freeport and his 30-year-old girlfriend of Chaguanas at about 10 pm were both seated in Ramsaroop’s car, when two men held them up.

Ramsaroop’s vehicle, was parked infront of the Lucien’s Restaurant and Bar, Mc Leod Junction, St Mary’s, Carapichaima.

The police report stated that the men — one of them armed with a gun and the other, with a knife, ordered Ramsaroop to drive his car to Carlsen Field, Chase Village, Chaguanas.

The couple, was ordered out of the vehicle. The men, assaulted the woman. She received injuries to her head, neck and back.

Ramsaroop, according to the police report, was forced to strip naked. He was then beaten about his head and body, with a piece of wood.

They , then bundled Ramsaroop into the trunk of his car. He was driven to a lonely road in Fireburn Village, Freeport.

The woman, police said, was left at Carlsen Field. She managed to make her way to a nearby house where she alerted residents of the incident.

She was then taken to the Freeport Police Station.

Ramsaroop, according to the police report, was taken out of the trunk and dumped at the side of the road and left for dead. His car was subsequently set on fire. The men, the police said, escaped on foot.

Police officers attached to the E999, found Ramsaroop slumped at the side of the road. He was rushed to the Chaguanas Health Facility and then transferred to the PoSGH where he later died.

Ramsaroop’s mother, Nandrani Boodoosingh, 43, yesterday pleaded for police officers to speed up their investigations and have her son’s killers arrested. "I don’t know why they kill my son, Oh God, I don’t know why" she said.

Nandrani said that her son — the second of six children, was recently employed at Central Glass in Chaguanas as a driver, "He was very happy with his job and usually limed after work on Fridays."

Ramsaroop was described as a very respectable young man in the village and one filled with ambition.

Homicide detectives attached to the Central Division are continuing investigations.

Learie Watson of Orange Field Road, Carapichaima was shot three times while plying his car for hire along Never Dirty Morvant on Saturday night.

He was shot in the head and torso.

Sham Gunness of Cedros got into an argument with a male relative after attending a parang lime.

A fight broke out and Gunness was stabbed once in the chest. The assailant fled the scene.