Relatives deny Ruby gunshot victim was criminal

Dec 24, 2013 News

– cops still to locate ‘Rebecca’
The reputed wife of Rafeek Mohamed is refuting reports that he was a thief, but says she has no idea how he ended up at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo with a bullet in the head.
Rafeek Mohamed, 39, was found on the foreshore on Thursday, December 19, two days after he left his home at Drysdale Street, Charlestown, allegedly to look for a daughter he had not seen in years.
He had been shot at close range to the head and pellets retrieved during a postmortem revealed that the injury was inflicted with a shotgun. Relatives positively identified the victim from the tattoo ‘Rebecca,’ that was imprinted on his left forearm. Police were up to yesterday still looking into the slain man’s background for clues to his murder.
Some of Mohamed’s neighbours had claimed that he was a thief but the slain man’s spouse, Chandroutie Sammy, who had initially declined to speak to Kaieteur News, described him as an honest and hardworking individual.
“He’s not that type of person; he’s not a thief; he works hard to earn a dollar,” she said.
Ms. Sammy and other relatives said that Mohamed sometimes offloaded fishing vessels at the Meadowbank wharf, and the couple would also “walk and sell” clothing.
Chandroutie Sammy said that she last saw her spouse around 11:00 hrs last week Tuesday, December 17. It was then that he told her that he was going “somewhere on the West Coast” to look for his 16-year-old daughter from another relationship.
Mohamed had tattooed Rebecca’s name on his arm and often spoke about her, though he apparently hadn’t seen her for some time. Sammy and Mohamed also had three small sons. Ms Sammy said that Mohamed told her and the boys that he was bringing Rebecca home for the holidays.
Kaieteur News was told that Mohamed had US$100 and some $30,000 in local currency in his possession when he left home. “He was happy; he said that he was going to buy a table set for me,” Ms. Sammy said, adding that her husband was also wearing a silver ring and a watch with a green canvas band.
The woman reportedly spoke to Mohamed around 11:30 hrs that Tuesday on his cell phone and he told her that he was in a bus heading up West Coast Demerara. However, when she called again, she only received a voicemail, and she failed to reach him for the rest of the day.
Sammy said that she became even more worried when Mohamed failed to turn up the following day. However, at the time, she was only fearful that her spouse had returned to Rebecca’s mother.
The woman said that she contacted a relative who advised her to report her spouse missing. But on Wednesday, December 18, Ms. Sammy’s sister told her that a body had been found and that the victim had ‘Rebecca’ tattooed on one arm. “From the time I hear that I know is Ravi,” she said.
No money was found on the victim and the ring and watch that he was wearing were also missing.
Police said that they have been unable to locate the mysterious daughter ‘Rebecca’ that Mohamed had planned to visit.
Mohamed was laid to rest yesterday.

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