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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Man facing 15 charges over shooting in Rio Claro

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532 days ago
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A 34-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore a Rio Claro Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with 15 of­fences aris­ing out of an al­leged shoot­ing in­ci­dent that oc­curred along Broth­ers Road in Rio Claro, last Sat­ur­day.

Labour­er VISH­NU GOPIE, al­so called RO­HAN GOPIE, of Leek­ing Trace, Broth­ers Road, was ar­rest­ed and charged on Sep­tem­ber 2nd by PC Ma­hadeo of the Rio Claro Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID).

The charges in­clude three counts of Shoot­ing with In­tent; two counts of Pos­ses­sion of a Firearm, Am­mu­ni­tion, Firearm to En­dan­ger Life Am­mu­ni­tion to En­dan­ger Life; Dis­charg­ing a Firearm with­in 40 me­tres of a Pub­lic Road; and Ma­li­cious Dam­age, re­spec­tive­ly.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued by the Po­lice Ser­vice, Vish­nu Ro­han Gopie was the lone sus­pect in con­nec­tion with a Sep­tem­ber 2nd po­lice re­port, in which an armed man was al­leged to have stood about 100 feet away from a fam­i­ly’s home and fired shots at the oc­cu­pants.

The oc­cu­pants lat­er re­treat­ed to safe­ty and the sus­pect left the scene.

Po­lice lat­er re­spond­ed to the re­port, and up­on ar­riv­ing at the lo­ca­tion, ob­served the front glass win­dow was shat­tered and sev­er­al shot­gun pel­lets were lodged in the wood­en par­ti­tion to the in­side of the fam­i­ly’s home.

Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­duct­ed by the Rio Claro CID, led by Sgt Ma­haraj, re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of the sus­pect who was lat­er charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences.


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