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Nov 26, 2008 News
Ballistics tests on warhead, shell incomplete
-gunpowder found on victim’s neck
The Guyana Police Force is still conducting ballistics tests on a 7.62X 39 spent shell and warhead found at the Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara home of murdered carpenter Vikesh Budhram. They hope these items will provide a clue as to the perpetrators of the execution-style killing.
Kaieteur News understands that, so far, investigators have not been able to come up with a possible match to any other crime scene.
Vikesh Budhram, 25, of 642 17th Street, Foulis, received a single gunshot wound to the neck from the barrel of an assault rifle while sleeping with his wife, Basmattie Rambharose, and one-year-old daughter, Rihanna.
Budhram’s death bore the hallmarks of an execution, since the killers did not demand anything from the family, but fled immediately after the suspected hit.
The incident occurred at about 23:00 hours on Saturday, and although most of the occupants of the house were at home, only Budhram’s wife saw the killers.
Police had stated that Budhram, along with his reputed wife and other family members, had retired to bed when his wife was aroused by the sound of a loud explosion in the bedroom.
She observed two men running out of the room, and upon checking found that Budhram had been shot to his right side neck.
Investigators believe that the killers gained entry to the two-flat house by removing a few louvre panes from a downstairs window.
They then proceeded to the upper flat, and went straight to Budhram’s room, which is situated at the front of the house, where they shot him.
A senior police official told this newspaper that detectives have completed taking statements from all the persons who were in the house at the time of the killing.
The official said that, despite speculations, there is no evidence so far to suggest that the carpenter’s murder was orchestrated from within his home.
The dead man’s wife, Basmattie Rambharose, had told this newspaper that she, her husband and their one-year-old child were asleep on their bed when the blast from the weapon rudely awakened her.
“I just hear a hard sound and I get up and start to holler. I see two persons run out de room. I hold me daughter and den I shake he, an
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