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Sunday, May 4, 2025

Man killed protecting his girlfriend, worker (with CNC3 video)

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A 31-year-old El So­cor­ro con­trac­tor was mur­dered on Sat­ur­day night as he at­tempt­ed to pro­tect his girl­friend and one of his em­ploy­ees from two armed men. The vic­tim, Shan­nol Ma­habir, of Mo­hammed Trace, El So­cor­ro, and his em­ploy­ee Mukesh Ram­char­i­tar, were lim­ing at his girl­friend's bar around 8 pm.

Ram­char­i­tar told po­lice that short­ly be­fore 9 pm, two strange men en­tered the bar, bought a round of drinks and left. Ma­habir and Ram­char­i­tar be­came sus­pi­cious when the duo re­turned ten min­utes lat­er. One of the sus­pects en­tered the bar while the oth­er wait­ed out­side.

When Ma­habir heard his girl­friend scream for help, he rushed to her as­sis­tance. As Ma­habir strug­gled with the man in­side the bar Ram­char­i­tar said the oth­er sus­pect drew a firearm from his waist. Ram­char­i­tar at­tempt­ed to dis­arm the man but the gun­man then point­ed the weapon at Ram­char­i­tar and threat­ened to kill him.

Man killed dur­ing El So­cor­ro bar rob­bery

Eye­wit­ness­es said Ma­habir rushed to his em­ploy­ee's as­sis­tance and was fa­tal­ly shot. The bul­let ric­o­cheted hit­ting Ram­char­i­tar in the face. The two sus­pects then ran away emp­ty-hand­ed. Of­fi­cers from the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force led by Sgt Roger Alexan­der and Cpl Sunil Bharath ar­rived at the scene less than five min­utes af­ter the shoot­ing and took the in­jured men to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope.

Ma­habir was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival, while Ram­char­i­tar was treat­ed and dis­charged yes­ter­day morn­ing. Eye­wit­ness­es were able to pro­vide de­tailed de­scrip­tions of the at­tack­ers and in­ves­ti­ga­tors said yes­ter­day af­ter­noon that ar­rests would be im­mi­nent. In a in­ter­view at Ma­habir's home, his cousin Sunil Samaad said: "This was a sense­less killing. Shan­nol was every­body life. We can't get over this."

Samaad said that his cousin's hero­ic ac­tions were not a sur­prise to his fam­i­ly or friends as he would al­ways come to the as­sis­tance of those he knew were in need. "He would al­ways do any­thing for the peo­ple he cared about," Samaad said. "This whole street in mourn­ing right now. Every­body feel­ing it," an el­der­ly neigh­bour shout­ed from her yard.

The mur­der toll stood at 328 up to late yes­ter­day. ASP Ma­habir, PCs Trevor Ram­baran, Clint Dass and Jerome Gor­don are in­ves­ti­gat­ing Ma­habir's mur­der.


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