A One Mile, Linden resident early yesterday morning shot and killed his fiancée before turning the gun on himself at her Pike Street, Kitty home.
Dead are 20-year-old, Amanda Mohan also known as “Roshina” of Lot 248 Pike Street, Kitty and her fiancé, Mark Anthony Moses, 24, of One Mile, Wismar, Linden. The couple had an eight-month-old daughter.
Police, in a press release, said Mohan was fatally shot to her chest by Moses around 5.40 am yesterday at her home following an argument. Moses, who then shot himself to the chest, was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and died while receiving treatment. An unlicensed 9 mm pistol with 3 spent shells was recovered by the police.
According to reports reaching Stabroek News, Moses and Mohan had been known to have constant arguments and had shared an abusive relationship for the past two years.
On Tuesday evening, Moses who reportedly worked in the interior, arrived in Georgetown to visit his fiancée and daughter and saw Mohan playing a game on a laptop with another man in her bedroom.
As a result, he became annoyed and an argument ensued after which he left. He subsequently returned during the wee hours of yesterday morning when the incident occurred.
The man with whom Mohan had been playing the game left the Kitty house after the couple started arguing.
An uncle of Mohan, Farouk Bacchus, told this newspaper with tears in his eyes that he occupies the bottom flat of the house where the incident occurred. The man explained that around 7.30 pm on Tuesday he had collected his dinner from his niece who catered for him and later proceeded to bed.
Bacchus said it was around 4.30 am yesterday that he was awakened by the sound of four gunshots and he immediately proceeded to the upper flat.
“When I go upstairs and see my niece she was lying on the ground in a pool of blood and was already dead,” Bacchus stated. Moses, he added, was discovered under the bed in the said room bleeding profusely.
The couple’s daughter was on the bed crying, while the gun was under a sheet on the same bed. Mohan and Moses were rushed to the GPH by Mohan’s brother, Ray (only name given) who was at home at the time of the incident along with her mother and aunt.
“I know to myself that almost every weekend he does come home and beat she. Because if is not some issue over money is something else,” Bacchus said.
When Stabroek News visited the crime scene yesterday, relatives and friends had gathered in their numbers; many of them were weeping. Residents of the area also gathered in the street; many of them related that they were awakened by the gunshots yesterday morning.
Meanwhile, Ray told reporters yesterday that while he was aware of an argument between his sister and her fiancé he wasn’t at home the entire Tuesday night and was not sure what exactly transpired. He added though that before he left home on Tuesday night Mohan was indeed playing games with a man, who he described as a family friend.
“There was a misunderstanding that she was sharing a relationship with the boy who is a family friend but he [the man] turn and tell Moses that ‘boy me and this girl is just friends we ain’t got nothing going’ but he didn’t believe. He left and went away,” Ray recalled.
Efforts to contact a relative of Moses proved futile.
Both bodies are at the GPH mortuary awaiting post-mortem examinations.
On Mohan’s Facebook page, there was an outpouring of condolences, such as: “Tears came to my eyes when I got the news about the death of a good friend, Amanda Rest in Peace love. She will forever live on in the memory of people who really knew her. She was someone who u can count on for good advice” and “R.I.P Amanda wish if RIP meant return if possible will always be missed.”
