| Police are trying to get a closer look at the gunman who stalked, chased and then killed Intaz Roopnarine last Thursday.A senior official told Kaieteur News yesterday that police have sought the expertise of technicians in the hope that they can enhance the image from surveillance cameras that show the brief confrontation between the killer and his victim.Dead: Intaz MohamedInvestigators are convinced that the gunman is an individual who is suspected to have carried out similar ‘jobs’ and who has been on the police radar for some time.But the suspect has apparently gone underground since police have been unable to locate him at any of the places that he is known to frequent.A warhead recovered at the scene indicated that the killer used a .32 revolver, while Roopnarine reportedly had a licensed 9mm pistol, considered to be even more lethal than the killer’s firearm. Some individuals have suggested that the gunman would have abandoned his mission had Roopnarine fired back at the individual or even discharged his weapon in the air.Roopnarine was shot dead while he was about to leave the Cool Square Hotel with a female companion.A security guard had reportedly cautioned Roopnarine that a suspicious-looking individual was lurking outside near the hotel.According to sources who viewed the camera footage,CHeap NFL Jerseys China, Roopnarine was about to follow his companion when the tall gunman scaled the hotel fence. The guard and Roopnarine immediately took evasive action.Kaieteur News was told that the gunman discharged a shot at his fleeing target but missed and struck one of the hotel windows.According to sources, there were several open rooms in which Roopnarine could have taken cover. Instead, the apparently panic-stricken man fled down a passageway leading to a dead end at the back of the hotel compound. There, the gunman shot him in the head.Sources who ruled out robbery as the motive pointed out that other guests had left the hotel before Roopnarine without arousing the gunman’s interest.Thursday’s killing comes in the wake of several other execution-style killings last year.On March 16, 2012, Leonard Mahadeo, 37, of Diamond, New Housing Scheme was drinking in the Soca Paradise Sports Bar located at Old Road Eccles, East Bank Demerara, when two gunmen walked in and riddled him with bullets. They then calmly left the scene. Mahadeo had survived a similar attempt on his life five years ago.In June, 2012, Pest Control Plus owner Mohamed Baksh was sitting in Flava’s Grill, a Thomas Street business place, when a car stopped near the premises.A gunman then entered the restaurant and shot Baksh twice in the head. He succumbed the following day at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.Also in March, Giovani Leitch, 21, of Tucville was gunned down aback of the Plaisance Market. On April 30, Renie Williams, a 25-year-old taxi driver and former policeman, was sitting with his wife in a car outside their King Edward Street, Albouystown home when a man clothed in black with a 9mm pistol shot him twice in the back, killing him almost instantly.Four days later, Albouystown resident, Aman Lalchand, called ‘Randy’ was smoking a marijuana joint in a poorly lit Sussex Street area, when the occupants of a white car pumped several gunshots into his body.Close associates said that Lalchand was targeted for execution by an individual who reportedly collected a $1M down-payment to carry out the hit.In late August, the bullet-riddled body of 25-year-old taxi driver, Sean De Freitas Sookdeo, was discovered on Thomas Lands, near the National Park.Sookdeo’s body bore gunshot wounds to the head, hands and abdomen and there were signs that he was also tortured.On October 15, Ricardo Rodrigues, a close associate of convicted drug dealer Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, was riddled with bullets from high-powered rifles as he sat at a table at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club compound on Albert Street.Jean Le Blanc, a Canadian, was also wounded and succumbed several days later. Rodrigues is said to have been linked to a huge arms cache that was intercepted at Lethem.Fifteen days after Rodrigues’ execution, his associate, Marlon Osborne, aka Marlon Scott and ‘Trini’, was gunned down in a brazen daylight onslaught while sitting in a vehicle near the junction of Peter Rose and Laluni Streets, Queenstown. |
