Camille Clarke

A 51-year-old grand­fa­ther and his son-in-law were shot to death on Sat­ur­day night on Tem­ple Street in Gon­za­les, Bel­mont. De­vanand "Un­cle Dave" Ra­j­coomar, a for­mer check­er of San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, and Joel "Snake Eyes" Phillip, 34, an em­ploy­ee of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme, died on the spot.

A re­port said Ra­j­coomar, Phillip and friends were lim­ing at the back of a rel­a­tive's house around 11.10 pm, when they were ap­proached by four gun­men, who opened fire on the group. Both men were struck about their bod­ies while their friends scam­pered for safe­ty. Ra­j­coomar and Phillip fell down a hill and land­ed on the side of the fam­i­ly's house.

Rel­a­tives com­plained yes­ter­day that mem­bers of the Emer­gency Health Ser­vice nev­er re­spond­ed to their call. San­dra said she did not know why any­one would want to kill her hus­band. "He was the bread­win­ner of the fam­i­ly. I nev­er worked, and he took care of every­thing. He was no gang­ster, and nev­er had a prob­lem with peo­ple.

Of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial An­ti-Crime Unit vis­it­ed the area to pho­to­graph the crime scene. How­ev­er, de­tec­tives said Phillip was the main sus­pect in the mur­der of PNM coun­cil­lor, Bert Al­lette, who was shot dead while walk­ing on St Fran­cois Val­ley Road in Bel­mont, on De­cem­ber 26, 2006.