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Pensioner “commits suicide”
Investigators are currently taking statements from relatives of an 83-year-old man who allegedly committed suicide at Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara yesterday. Dead is Joseph Rodrigues, who was allegedly shot himself in the mouth.
According to information, around 11:00hrs yesterday, Angelica Rodrigues, the man’s 62-year-old daughter returned home and entered her kitchen and started washing “some wares” when she
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suddenly felt a “lash” on her foot.
When she turned around, she said that she saw her father with a bat in his hands. The two had a scuffle and she shouted to her 17-year-old granddaughter. The young girl came from the upper flat of the building and spoke to her grandfather.
Sources close to the investigation told Kaieteur News that the 17-year-old told her great-grandfather to desist from behaving in that way. According to reports the man left and went upstairs to his room and came out with his gun.
The elderly man who was a licensed firearm holder came out from his room and fired a shot at his daughter but missed. Fearing for her life, the 62-year-old woman ran downstairs and secured herself in a room with her granddaughter.
The 83-year-old man then went downstairs and reportedly broke the windows from the room his daughter was hiding in, but was told by his great-granddaughter that his daughter was not in the room.
The source added that after there was complete silence, the daughter thought her father had left the house. However minutes later the woman said she heard a gunshot around the step and within another five minutes they heard another shot. The woman said after hearing the shots they heard the elderly man cry out. The police were then summoned and the man was found in the living room of his upper-flat apartment with his face completely destroyed.
The police in a press statement said that they were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of pensioner and licenced firearm holder Joseph Rodrigues. According to the police the incident happened some time after 11:55hrs yesterday.
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