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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

La Romain woman shot dead in car, husband seriously injured

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Sascha Wilson
36 days ago
20250617
Church Street, Rambert Village, La Romain, where 63-year-old Premnath Enal sought assistance after gunmen opened fire on his vehicle near the Debe Roundabout, killing his common-law wife, Elizabeth Lennard, on Sunday.

Church Street, Rambert Village, La Romain, where 63-year-old Premnath Enal sought assistance after gunmen opened fire on his vehicle near the Debe Roundabout, killing his common-law wife, Elizabeth Lennard, on Sunday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

La Ro­main res­i­dents say they are still in shock over a vi­o­lent at­tack in Debe on Sun­day night that claimed the life of 59-year-old Eliz­a­beth “Mary” Lennard and left her com­mon-law hus­band crit­i­cal­ly in­jured.

While his wife was dy­ing in their ve­hi­cle, 63-year-old Prem­nath Enal—de­spite his in­juries—drove to La Ro­main to seek as­sis­tance.

By the time he got there, how­ev­er, his wife was al­ready dead.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 10.20 pm, of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol in La Ro­main were alert­ed to a re­port of an un­re­spon­sive per­son in a ve­hi­cle along Church Street, Ram­bert Vil­lage.

When they ar­rived, they found Lennard’s body in the front pas­sen­ger seat.

A res­i­dent told po­lice that around 10.15 pm, she was at home when her neigh­bour called out to her, and on check­ing, she saw Enal stand­ing in her yard with blood on his clothes and in­juries to his face. The hus­band re­port­ed he and his com­mon-law-wife were shot near the Debe Round­about and that she died in the car.

While the res­i­dent was speak­ing to him, Enal be­gan pan­ick­ing and ran off.

The po­lice found him about 150 me­tres away on a near­by street, ly­ing on the road­way and bleed­ing from gun­shot in­juries to his face, fore­arm, and up­per thigh. He al­so had abra­sions on his ear. Po­lice re­cov­ered a spent 9mm shell and a 9mm pro­jec­tile in the ve­hi­cle.

Enal was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, where he re­mained ward­ed up to yes­ter­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3 were still try­ing to de­ter­mine the mo­tive for the dead­ly shoot­ing.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Church Street, La Ro­main, res­i­dents were still in shock. They said the woman’s rel­a­tives were orig­i­nal­ly from the area but had mi­grat­ed. A res­i­dent, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, re­called that they were about to re­tire to bed when they heard the ve­hi­cle.

At first, he said, they thought some­one was vis­it­ing their neigh­bour for Fa­ther’s Day, but when they saw peo­ple gath­er­ing around the car, they knew some­thing was wrong.

“I saw the la­dy cov­ered in blood, her head was back on the head­rest. I could tell she was dead al­ready. I didn’t see the dri­ver,” he said.

The res­i­dent said it was the first time they had ex­pe­ri­enced some­thing so trau­mat­ic in the area. “This in­ci­dent has me feel­ing very hurt and up­set,” he lament­ed.

Enal’s broth­er, who lives in Rousil­lac, said rel­a­tives had not spo­ken to him in years. He said Enal and Lennard had been in a re­la­tion­ship for about four years. They had no chil­dren to­geth­er.


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