RALPH BAN­WARIE and

RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three mur­ders, among them a Hin­du pun­dit and a woman, which oc­curred from Sat­ur­day night in­to yes­ter­day.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent, 64-year-old Pun­dit Ramesh Ma­haraj was killed yes­ter­day evening in Sou Sou Lands, Guaico, San­gre Grande.

Ac­cord­ing to ini­tial re­ports, Ma­haraj and his wife re­turned to their Cu­nar­ipo Home around 5.30 pm, parked their ve­hi­cle and en­tered their house.

While they were in the liv­ing room, two men armed with cut­lass­es en­tered via the back door and an­nounced a hold up. They be­gan to chop the spir­i­tu­al leader about his body and pro­ceed­ed to rob his wife, who was un­harmed, of cash and jew­el­ry.

The men then ran out the house and es­caped in near­by bush­es.

Ma­haraj’s wife called out to neigh­bours for help. The po­lice were in­formed and of­fi­cers from San­gre Grande CID and Task Force re­spond­ed. How­ev­er, Ma­haraj was al­ready dead when of­fi­cers en­tered the house.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Abel viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary pend­ing a post mortem.

In the oth­er in­ci­dent, 47-year-old Keisha Black­man was stabbed to death by an­oth­er woman in Care­nage.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 4 am yes­ter­day, Black­man, of Up­per Abbe Pou­jade Street, Care­nage, was pro­ceed­ing north along Haig Street when she no­ticed her boyfriend with an­oth­er woman.

There was a con­fronta­tion and it is al­leged that the woman drew a knife and stabbed Black­man sev­er­al times in her chest area be­fore es­cap­ing.

Black­man was tak­en to the St James Med­ical Hos­pi­tal where she was pro­nounced dead.

The sus­pect lat­er sur­ren­dered at the West End po­lice sta­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

And in the fi­nal in­ci­dent, one man was shot dead and three oth­ers were in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal last evening, af­ter suf­fer­ing gun­shot in­juries dur­ing an at­tack in San­ta Cruz.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, at 5.15 pm po­lice re­spond­ed to re­ports of gun­fire op­po­site a pop­u­lar bar in Can­taro Vil­lage.

Up to press time, the vic­tim’s iden­ti­ty and de­tails sur­round­ing the shoot­ing re­mained un­clear.