Bandit shot by accomplice dies

Jun 10, 2014 News

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– cops hunt accomplices

The bandit who was shot by an accomplice during Sunday night’s botched attack on a Number Eleven Village, Corentyne

family, succumbed from his injuries after telling relatives: “Ma, ah going home”.
The thief, identified as Avinash Rambazad, called “Pandit”, 20, of Adelphi Village, East Canje, Berbice, died at the New Amsterdam Hospital from gunshots wounds to the chest and abdomen.
He was accidentally blasted with what is believed to be a shotgun when an accomplice attempted to shoot housewife Rohan Doodnauth, whose home the four-man gang had invaded.
Police sources said the youth was part of a notorious gang in the area. Up to press time yesterday, police were still trying to track down the slain man’s accomplices.
But Rambazad’s relatives claim that they were unaware that he was involved in any criminal activity.
His mother, Allimoon Azeez, a fish vendor of Reliance Village, East Canje, said that her son, the only boy among her five children, lived with her daughter at Adelphi Village.  She said that he did part-time carpentry and once went into the gold fields.
According to her, she last spoke to Rambazad by phone on Friday and did not see him again until she visited him in hospital on Sunday.
The dead man’s sister, Sahodra Rampersaud, said she was told that her brother “get shoot in some gun story” after receiving a call from a cousin who works at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
On visiting the hospital, the sister said she saw her brother lying on his side with a hole in his back. She said that he told them that his belly was hurting and that he needed some water.
“He tell we that he is going home and not to worry.” He succumbed shortly after.
It was shortly after 19:00 hrs on Sunday evening that the young bandit and three others entered through the back of the popular ‘Joe’s Workshop’ at Lot 5 Number 11 Village. The business is run by Rohan ‘Joe’ Doodnauth, who is confined to a wheelchair.
Kaieteur News was told that the gunmen forced Mr. Doodnauth’s employees, Karamchand Doodnauth and Ravindra Karim, to lie on the floor while the wheelchair-bound Mr. Doodnauth watched helplessly as one of the intruders placed a gun to his wife’s head.
Premwattie Doodnauth, 40, said she could have been the one shot dead by the other bandit and she is indeed lucky to be alive.
“They put he (her husband) down flat and the one pointed the gun to my brother-in-law and the other one put the worker down flat by the store room—and they told Joe to ‘lie low’.”
She heard the commotion but before she realized what was going on, “the man scrambled me hair suh and I turned back and his face was masked, so I started to scream.

“I gave him my wedding band and a bangle, and he said that’s not enough so he pulled me and brought me near the kitchen.”
Mrs. Doodnauth reportedly gave the robbers thousands of dollars, but the intruders were apparently dissatisfied and the one who was holding a gun to her head ordered an accomplice, who had “a long gun” to shoot the housewife.
“He told the other one outside to ‘Shoot! Shoot!’ but when he shoot the man (Avinash Rambazad) fell down next to my foot.
“The other bandit then came up and was asking the one that was shot, ‘Get up! What happen to you?! Get up and collect the thing [the money and jewellery)”.
In the aftermath, the bandits became confused when the wounded Rambazad told them he “was not going to make it”.
One of them then dragged the wounded youth out to the backyard where he was left for dead,

while the other two made a dash for the backlands. Police arrived on the scene within five minutes and transported the bandit to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he later succumbed.
In the confusion, the robbers left the cash behind, escaping with a mere $60,000 in jewellery.
Villagers said they heard the gunshots but were scared to come out. Mrs. Doodnauth said that it was the second occasion that their home and business were invaded by armed gunmen—the first was in 2004. The family operates a welding and fabrication shop for agri- machinery and boats.
Mr. Doodnauth, a veteran engineer in Guyana, said that if he had a firearm, he would have overpowered the bandits. He suggested that the bandit that had held his wife hostage had a toy gun, since he (the robber) would have shot his wife rather than order the other bandit to do so.
“They wanted more money—even though it was a set of $5000 bills—it looked little—and they wanted more and it’s the ‘more’ that got their partner shot.
“It’s a pity the bandit shot was 20- years- old—he should have come here let me teach him some skills to weld!” Doodnauth added.

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