Six held after slaying of US-based Guyanese on Corentyne

Loopwatie speaking to relatives yesterday

Six persons have been taken into custody as police in Berbice intensify their investigation into the killing of a United States-based resident at Clifton Settlement, Corentyne on Wednesday.

At around 7:30 pm, two masked gunmen entered the yard where Roopnarine Ramodit, 59, was sitting with another man and inflicted a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. Ramodit was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. By that time the gunmen made off with a “fat”