Sascha Wil­son

Through his grief and pain yes­ter­day, a rel­a­tive of the slain fa­ther of one Adesh Heer­alal ap­pealed to “bad boys” to put down the guns.

“Please re­frain from your wicked ways and drop the gun, live the right way, please. We have fam­i­ly, you have a moth­er and chil­dren too. You have sis­ters and broth­ers. You will not like the same to hap­pen to them. Please, please I be­seech you, drop your gun, re­frain from your wicked ways, and ask God to for­give you, even though my nephew done dead,” plead­ed Ra­jen­dra Ram­per­sad.

He was speak­ing with re­porters at Heer­alal’s home at Wil­son Road in Pe­nal where he (Heer­alal) lived with his wife, Menisha Bridge­mo­han, and his 17-month-old son.

Through her tears, Bridge­mo­han re­called that just be­fore 8 pm on Mon­day, a man known to them called out to her hus­band and walked a dis­tance away. Heer­alal, a lines­man, fol­lowed him while Bridge­mo­han went back in­side the house be­cause their ba­by was sleep­ing. “And with­in five to six min­utes I just heard like fire­works. I didn’t know if he was shot and I did not know what was go­ing on. He was run­ning in the back and call­ing out to his fa­ther. I tried call­ing him and I did not get him.” She called his fa­ther. He told her Heer­alal got shot and to call the po­lice.

When she ran across to her fa­ther-in-law’s home with her ba­by, she said, “he was prac­ti­cal­ly dead al­ready.” He had at least four gun­shot wounds to his body.

They placed him in the tray of a van and took him to the Siparia Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he was pro­nounced dead. “I don’t know why,” cried Bridge­mo­han who claimed her hus­band had no en­e­mies and had re­ceived no threats.

Heer­alal’s sis­ter Asha Sar­ju­lal be­lieves her broth­er was mis­tak­en for some­one else be­cause he was a love­able per­son who was not in­volved in any il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties. She said last Thurs­day she got mar­ried and planned to in­vite him to her home this week­end to give him the good news.  

Lament­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion, she said, “You don’t know who go­ing to pull out a gun and shoot you for noth­ing. I see on the news peo­ple get­ting killed for bad dri­ve and things. My broth­er, all he want­ed was a child, a son. He on­ly get his son for one year.”

Bridge­mo­han said her hus­band was the sole bread­win­ner in the fam­i­ly and now her life has been turned up­side down.  “I don’t know what I’m go­ing to do now, I just don’t know,” she lament­ed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­trieved two spent 9 mm cas­ings and a pro­jec­tile at the scene. The mo­tive for his mur­der was un­known up to late yes­ter­day, po­lice said. Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.