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Cops question close associates of Friday night’s execution victim
-unlicensed gun found in victim’s vehicle
Police were last night questioning two close associates of Leonard Mahadeo, who was gunned down Friday
Dead 37 year-old Leonard Mahadeo who was shot execution style on Friday night.
night at Eccles, East Bank Demerara in what investigators believe was a drug-related hit.
The two men are being questioned by detectives at the Brickdam Police Station. A police official confirmed that an unlicensed Taurus pistol was found in the slain man’s car.
Police said that Mahadeo, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, had multiple gunshot wounds. The bullet casings at the scene indicated that the killers used assault rifles.
Up to late yesterday relatives of the slain 37-year-old Diamond resident who was gunned down in the Soca Paradise Bar on Friday evening said that they are still trying to come up with a motive for his execution.
However, they described the act as cold blooded and performed by heartless persons. Mahadeo’s reputed wife, Jenny Rambarran, told this publication from her Soesdyke home that she was at home around 11:30 pm Friday when she received a call about the shooting.
Rambarran said that by the time she made it down to Eccles she was barred from entering the nightspot until the police were finished doing their work.
“When I went in the bar I saw him just lying there. He was badly damaged; his intestines were protruding and he was already dead,” Rambarran recalled as she sobbed.
The woman said that she last saw Mahadeo alive earlier on Friday evening when he visited her and their four children. Rambarran said Mahadeo appeared normal and didn’t mention anything about having any problem with anyone.
The woman said that Mahadeo who had recently gone into mining was the breadwinner for the home and has been for the past 20 years. She said that Mahadeo’s death has hit the family really hard and it will be difficult for his children.
Up to press time yesterday, police were still trying to come up with a possible motive for the execution style killing.
While some close friends said he had no enemies and are unaware of a motive for his brutal killing, Mahadeo had been the target of gunmen up to four years ago.
Back in 2008, Mahadeo was shot in the chest, right shoulder and left knee by an armed man while sitting in his car at the corner of Barr Street and Stanley Place, Kitty in front of the Bahama Breeze Bar. It was reported that the incident was an execution attempt.
Eyewitnesses to the incident had reported that Mahadeo had gone into the Bahama Breeze nightspot and had bought something to drink. He then returned to his car with the beverage. Shortly after, a gunman, who was standing some 50 yards away, opened fire at Mahadeo’s vehicle before escaping.
Although wounded, Mahadeo managed to exit his car and stagger into the night club. Some patrons assisted the wounded man into his car and took him to the Woodlands Hospital. The police recovered six spent shells and four warheads at the scene.
And in June 1996, Mahadeo was charged with transporting and exporting 2.272 grammes of cocaine. An operative from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police testified in the historic local case, in which videotaped evidence was also tendered.
Last Friday night, two masked gunmen walked into the Soca Paradise Bar with a ‘long gun’ and a handgun and riddled Mahadeo who was sitting at a table with a friend. Eyewitnesses said that the two masked men after riddling Mahadeo and leaving his friend unharmed, calmly walked out of the bar and made good their escape.
There are reports that Mahadeo may have been somehow linked to the recent discovery of two haversacks with cocaine which were found in the compound of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
On Sunday last, ranks from the Police Narcotics Unit found the bag with cocaine totaling 10 kilograms.
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