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Eight years later…Family of slain West Ruimveldt hairdresser wants case reopened
“We want know who kill she. All we looking for is justice,” cried the relatives of Shenese Richardson, the West Ruimveldt, Georgetown hairdresser, who was knifed to death in her bedroom on December 15, 2008.
DEAD: Shenese Richardson
Richardson, 25, also called Bucky, was stabbed 21 times about her body at her home by intruders at around 22:45hrs. She was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) but died a few hours later in the operating room.
Although the intruders robbed the family of cash and jewellery, the victims are still convinced that the men were sent to kill Richardson.
The family is pleading with police to reopen investigation and have the killers brought to justice.
Police had questioned Richardson’s estranged husband about her murder, after arresting him at the GPHC, hours after his wife died.
He was subsequently released. To date, no one has been charged with the gruesome murder.
Richardson had just returned home and was in her bedroom eating, when one of the hairdresser’s sisters heard a man calling at the door and requested to purchase cigarettes. This was nothing strange, since persons would visit the home at all hours to purchase items.
The buyer paid with a $500 note. When Richardson’s sister turned her back, the man pushed open the door and signaled to three other men.
At this point, the men who were all armed with ‘big guns’ barged into the home and headed to a room at the back, after grabbing a knife from a kitchen drawer.
While four men entered the family’s home, two others remained on the road.
Richardson’s sister and mother were pushed into another room and forced to lay face down, while a gunman stood over them. A few minutes after, loud screams were heard coming from Richardson’s room, “mommy, mommy.”
But her mother and sister could have done nothing to help.
The gunmen spent about 30 minutes in the home.
“We find Bucky lying on a mat in her room. She was lying straight. Like he (killer) put she to lay there and stab she up. Like they stab her out of anger… she had stabs on she breast, thighs, hands all over. She was the only one who was harmed. She ain’t put up no resistance or nothing that would have caused them (gunmen) to kill her”, another relative added.
A relative said, “This wasn’t no robbery. They came to kill her (Richardson). They killed her and left the bloody knife on a chair handle before leaving. He (the killer) take out a towel from her drawer and wipe off the blood from his hand before leaving.”
Kaieteur News understands that Richardson was a very easy going young woman and had no enemies. “She doesn’t deh about the place. She ain’t got any enemies or problems with anybody. I just want to know who kill her. Every day I think about her. I can’t do anything without looking at her photos.”
An uncle of the dead woman is still hopeful that Richardson’s killers will be brought to justice. He is pleading for police to reopen investigations in the matter. According to the uncle, police have been very proactive over the past year in solving several cold cases. He even pointed out the Babita Sarjou murder case.
“Look how police find the man that (allegedly) kill her and bury her in his yard. It will take some time for them to go over back the case file. But I believe this year we will get justice for her.”
The family is also calling on the Caribbean American Domestic Awareness Organization (CADVA), a human rights organization to intervene.
CADVA works with the abused and families of murdered women in the Caribbean and had been working closely with Babita Sarjou’s mother since her disappearance in 2010.
“All of we (family) run at the hospital to give she (Richardson) blood but it was too late. The killer slashed she throat to.” I don’t know how that person could live with himself. He has no conscience. He still is walking about out there.”
The man recounted that some of the men who invaded his niece’s home wore kerchiefs on their faces, while others had caps pulled down in their face.
“They even left some of the bandanas (kerchiefs) behind. We find a green and blue one in the house and white one on the road.”
Richardson had moved out of her matrimonial home at Ogle, East Coast Demerara and returned to her mother’s home, where she did cosmetology.
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