Counsellor murdered while defending woman

Ralph Turpin

A 54-year-old counsellor who went to the assistance of a woman who was being physically assaulted by a man was shot dead at a Stabroek Market food stand early yesterday morning.

Ralph Matthew Turpin of Lot 25 Agriculture Road, Triumph, East Coast Demerara and the co-founder of the Infinity Rehabilitation Centre located at the same address, succumbed to two gunshot wounds to the head before he arrived at the