A ballistics test conducted on two firearms discovered following a shootout between the police and three bandits on Sunday in Black Bush Polder, have confirmed that they were used recently in the robbery carried out on an Albion Chinese supermarket.
The suspects were identified as Kelvin Shivgobin, also known as “Kelly”, 32, of Belvedere Village, Corentyne; Ramnarine Jagmohan, also known as “Andrew”, 33, of Toopoo/Albion, Corentyne; and Sewchand Seelall, also known as “Pappie”, 52, of Lot 82 Johanna North, Black Bush Polder.
A source yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News that the AR-15 rifle and another firearm were used in the robbery committed on the Z-One Chinese Supermarket, located at Lot 16 B Albion Front, Corentyne, around 9.15 pm two Saturdays ago.
In that robbery, the bandits stole $250,000 in cash and one cellphone. However, before escaping, they had opened fire on ranks attached to the Albion Police Station, who had arrived at the scene in their patrol vehicle.
On Sunday afternoon, three suspected bandits were shot and killed by Berbice lawmen in the Johanna, Black Bush Polder backlands.
The Guyana Police Force, in a press statement, had said that acting on information received that strange persons were seen in the backlands, a team of police led by a Senior Officer, proceeded to the area and conducted a search. Whilst doing so, they reportedly came under rapid fire, and so immediately took up tactical positions and returned fire in the general direction from which the gunshots originated.
According to the force, the exchange lasted for about five minutes and after it subsided, the ranks combed the area and three males were found motionless with suspected gunshot injuries.
In close proximity to the men at the scene, a pistol, two revolvers, an AR-15 rifle, three magazines, 253 rounds of live ammunition and seven spent shells were found.
The ranks also found three haversacks containing two yellow metal chains, four yellow metal earrings, two yellow metal rings, two silver bands, a yellow metal band, a silver pendant, $609,330 Guyana currency and two foreign currency notes, two bulletproof vests and five cellphones. In addition to that, a solar charger, torch lights, crowbar, knife, cutlass, flash drive, leggings with eye holes, topes, masks, duct tape, gloves and 200 grammes of cannabis were also discovered.
Yesterday, autopsies were conducted on the men at the Port Mourant Hospital by government pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan, and it was found that the cause of death for Shivgobin and Jagmohan were shock and haemorrhage due to multiple gunshot injuries sustained, while the cause of death for Seelall was shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injury sustained, implying that Seelall may have only sustained one fatal gunshot injury.
Shivgobin was wanted by the police in relation to the double murder committed on
Bushlot brothers, Premcharran and Harricharran Samaroo, who were fatally shot during a robbery at their mother’s house on December 31, last year. Residents in Black Bush Polder had suspected that Shivgobin was actually hiding out at Seelall’s house.
According to residents, from Seelall’s house it is possible to reach the spot through the backlands where the men were shot.
Ramnarine Jagmohan and another brother, Neshan Jagmohan, 27, of Hampshire Squatting Area, Corentyne, were in prison on a murder charge. In October, 2013, the Jagmohans were charged with the murder of businessman Devindra Deodat, also known as “Dave”, who was killed during the commission of an armed robbery.
While his brother had died due to injuries sustained during a prison brawl, Ramnarine was released on March 14, after the matter was dismissed in the High Court in Berbice.
