Sascha Wil­son

Two weeks af­ter an at­tempt on the life of a San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­man’s daugh­ter, a 21-year-old em­ploy­ee of a car deal­er­ship linked to R&J Cell Tech was shot and killed ear­li­er to­day. The vic­tim, Sal­im Ab­dool, sus­tained a gun­shot wound to the chest and was un­der­go­ing emer­gency surgery but lat­er died.

Around 1 p.m., he was dri­ving a Toy­ota Hilux be­hind an­oth­er com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle along the Gol­con­da Con­nec­tor Road when, near the VM­COTT in­ter­sec­tion, an­oth­er ve­hi­cle pulled along­side and opened fire.

On May 13, the busi­ness­man’s daugh­ter was tar­get­ed while dri­ving her Range Rover along the South Trunk Road. A Nis­san B14 struck her ve­hi­cle near the Cross Cross­ing In­ter­change, then pulled up be­side her. The dri­ver opened the front pas­sen­ger door and fired two shots. She was un­harmed and drove to the po­lice sta­tion.

Her fa­ther, Ra­bindranath Ma­haraj, said he be­lieved it was an at­tempt on her life, though he was un­sure why his fam­i­ly con­tin­ued to be tar­get­ed. He re­called his son’s kid­nap­ping, two at­tempt­ed kid­nap­pings of an­oth­er daugh­ter, and at least 14 rob­beries.

San Fer­nan­do po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.