An Enmore taxi-driver was gunned down in his car late Friday night on the East Coast Demerara Railway Embankment.
The body of 24-year-old Roopchand Darshan, 24, of 98 Logwood Enmore, East Coast Demerara was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car, PRR 4834, with a single gunshot wound to the head on the Strathspey Railway Embankment around 10.50 pm.
His mother Latchmie said he left home around 6pm on Friday for work. “Before he leave he said he wasn’t feeling well,
so I made a cup of tea with a tennis roll and a piece of cheese and then he left,” she said, weeping. “And then before I sleep around nine o’clock I called him and said, baby if you ain’t feeling good come home and he said he was coming in half an hour…”
Latchmie recalled waking up to shouting in the front of her yard and when she looked out of her window two young men broke the painful news. “They said ‘Aunty, somebody shoot your son’ so I called my daughter and we went to the place and the police was there and we weren’t allowed to see him.” His family received the news of his death around 1 am.
The front of Darshan’s car was found in the trench while the other half was on the road. “That was the only son I have… oh god how me gone live without my son. My son very close to me….how me gon live without him…he does call me on the phone and ask if me alright…oh baby look how you left your mommy…” she cried.
She repeated that her son did not have any problem with anyone: “All y’all know me son didn’t have no problem…he was a quiet boy.”
However, she said Darshan had an argument with a man on Wednesday and the man had hit him on the head. She said that after he threatened to report the incident to the police the man threatened to hurt him further.
A group of men living in the neighbourhood told his relatives that some time after 10pm he received a called from a person who wanted to be picked up.
Darshan had worked as a taxi driver for the past five years. He leaves to mourn his mother, father and sister.
According to a police press statement his death is being investigated.
