Latest update December 19th, 2024 3:22 AM
16-year-old shoots self dead with father’s gun
Lisa Prashad
(By Mondale Smith and Dale Andrews)
Last evening the community of Republic Park was thrown into shock as a 16-year-old resident shot herself dead in the right side chest minutes after sharing conversation with her father.
Dead is Lisa Prashad of 319 Republic Park, a fifth form student at the Marian’s Academy who was preparing to write CSEC.
The America-born teen according to her father, Lincoln Prashad, went home early after she complained of feeling unwell.
“This is unexplainable. We never expected this at all. We are shocked. She came home early after her teacher called saying that she was feeling unwell and we gaffed a bit then she went to her room. Minutes later me and her mother heard what sounded like something fall down in the kitchen and I told her mother to check and see if something fall off the stove.”
Her mother said she went into the kitchen and all was well. “Then I heard a gasping sound and though I’d check on her.”
She said when she went into her daughter’s room she heard her gasping and started to rub her head in the dimly lit room thinking that she was just not feeling well. “I hold her and started rubbing her head and then when I started rubbing her back I realized that my hand was wet and when I turned on the light I saw her father’s gun on the bed and then realized that she was bleeding.”
The mother screamed for her baby and her father ran into the room. It was then that he realized that his daughter had used his gun to shoot herself. “She was gasping and I grabbed her and ran out the house into the car and to the hospital.”
But when they got there it was too late. She had died.
Neighbours who expressed utter shock and disbelief described her as a quiet girl who did not mix in the community but was very mannerly.
“She had friends who would go over there and hang outside sometimes but that aside she was basically a loner,” one neighbour said.
Another said that she was preparing to watch Prime News when she heard what she though was a firecracker or a gunshot, which she says is a regular occurrence in the neighbourhood. Then news came that the pretty, quiet girl whom she saw grow up in the community had killed herself.
“This is a total shock because she is the opposite of her sister in Canada. The sister was more social and outgoing but was a top student while (this one) was quieter and somewhat antisocial.”
Lisa was pronounced dead at the Woodlands Hospital where she was rushed minutes after shooting herself.
Police in a press release last night said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the apparent suicide, which occurred at the dead girl’s parents’ home at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara, at about 19:00 hours.
The police said that the firearm, a .32 pistol, is in police custody.
Prashad’s apparent suicide comes a mere four days after 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan plunged to her death from the a cliff near the world famous Kaieteur Falls.
Bulkan’s body has been spotted but a search team at the bottom of the falls is reportedly experiencing some difficulty in retrieving it.
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