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Monday, March 3, 2025

Mother killed, son hurt in deadly ambush near police station

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Radhica De Silva
65 days ago
20241228
Undertakers remove the body of Monica Ghany from the scene at King’s Wharf, San Fernando, yesterday.

Undertakers remove the body of Monica Ghany from the scene at King’s Wharf, San Fernando, yesterday.

INNIS FRANCIS

Gun­men opened fire on Mon­i­ca Ghany and her son Matthew as they left the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter vis­it­ing her ail­ing hus­band, re­tired busi­ness­man Steve Ghany, yes­ter­day, a stone’s throw away from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Head­quar­ters.

Still clutch­ing the wheel of her Nis­san Ti­i­da, Mon­i­ca took her last breath, her head slumped down­wards, while her son lay bleed­ing in the pas­sen­ger seat.

Po­lice said the shoot­ing hap­pened at 2 pm.

Mon­i­ca and Matthew were dri­ving along La­dy Hailes Av­enue when, up­on reach­ing the con­struc­tion site of the new mar­ket, gun­men am­bushed them and rid­dled their car with bul­lets. The front wind­screen was shat­tered as passers­by near the King’s Wharf Tyre Shop fled for safe­ty.

Matthew was rushed to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, but Mon­i­ca was pro­nounced dead at the scene.

When con­tact­ed, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (South/Cen­tral) Wayne Mys­tar con­firmed that homi­cide of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent. He de­clined to com­ment fur­ther.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, pres­i­dent of the Greater San Fer­nan­do Cham­ber of Com­merce, Ki­ran Singh, said the mur­der had shak­en the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. Ex­press­ing sad­ness over the killing, Singh de­scribed the wors­en­ing crime sit­u­a­tion as un­bear­able.

“We are deeply dis­tressed to hear of an­oth­er mur­der in San Fer­nan­do, where the wife of a busi­ness­man was bru­tal­ly killed and her son in­jured. Her car was sprayed with bul­lets in broad day­light,” Singh said.

He urged the po­lice to act swift­ly in ap­pre­hend­ing the sus­pects and en­sur­ing jus­tice is served.

“When is the crime go­ing to stop? We are look­ing for­ward to some se­ri­ous pos­i­tive re­sults. We are hear­ing a lot of talk and no ac­tion,” Singh added.

“We ex­pect the po­lice to be dili­gent in ar­rest­ing the sus­pects and en­sur­ing due process. We have crossed 600 mur­ders in this coun­try—a record high—and the year is not over yet. When will it end?”

Mon­i­ca’s mur­der, which took the toll to 614, came just 13 hours af­ter an­oth­er fa­tal shoot­ing along La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do.

Po­lice re­port­ed that a man known on­ly by the alias “Bam,” was shot and killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with an­oth­er in­di­vid­ual on Thurs­day night. At 10.40 pm, Bam, who resided at King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, ex­it­ed a black mo­tor car on La­dy Hailes Av­enue. Mo­ments lat­er, there was an ex­change of gun­fire be­tween Bam and an oc­cu­pant of the ve­hi­cle.

When po­lice and Emer­gency Health Ser­vices per­son­nel ar­rived, Bam was al­ready dead. In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered 11 spent 9mm shell cas­ings and one live round of am­mu­ni­tion from the scene.


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