(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Surita Aruna Deosaran, who survived two bullets to her head in March, suspect the same gunman who shot her returned to finish the job on Wednesday afternoon.
Deosaran, 36, was partially paralysed and was in a wheelchair when a gunman drove a white Nissan AD Wagon into her yard, entered her kitchen and fatally shot her and her husband, Nigel Chance, 44. Deosaran’s mother and father, who live next door, ran to the house and found them bleeding in the kitchen.
Officers from the nearby Moruga Police Post responded, but the couple was already dead.
Deosaran’s eight-year-old son was not at home, but with relatives when the killer came.
At Deosaran parents’ home yesterday, her brother-in-law Stephen Persad said that while white AD Wagons were the choice of criminals, he believes that whoever shot Deosaran last March returned to finish the hit.
While relatives could not speculate on the reason for the double-murder, Persad said Deosaran had a firearm possession case before the court. He said Deosaran lived in the United States of America for two decades but returned two years ago after completing her house along the Moruga Road.
However, it appeared she began hanging out with the wrong crowd, and police said she was soon known as Warrior Princess.
Deosaran’s brush with death came on March 22 along the Moruga Road, St Mary’s Village, around 10.30 pm, when gunmen in a white AD Wagon opened fire on her as she drove.
She lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a coconut tree. A gunman approached Deosaran and shot her several times on her head and neck. Police found a loaded Glock 17 pistol near the driver’s seat of Deosaran’s vehicle.
Asked if she told the family why someone wanted her dead, Persad said: “I do not think she used to be forthwith with that, so I do not know why they would kill her, but obviously, they had their reason. I am not going to pretend that it was good reasons. Nobody will shoot yu innocently,” Persad said.
While Persad agrees that it was too easy for gunmen to walk into people’s homes and murder them, he said that death was sometimes a consequence of the lives people live.
“I am not going to be dishonest and say she was a saint. I do not think she would have died like this if she was a saint. As for the exact reason, I do not know. I cannot say.”
It was a tragedy for the family, and Persad said it appears they have not yet accepted the deaths.
There are reports of a link between Deosaran and Chance’s murders and the disappearance of Sanjay Deonath.
However, Persad could not say if they knew each other.
Deonath, also known as Naren, rented an apartment at Douglas Street, St Mary’s Village, close to Deosaran and Chance’s home. It was the same street that Chance had lived in previously, and according to a report, they were friends.
A report stated that Chance was the last person to see Deonath around 8 pm on Wed-nesday at St Mary’s Junction. Calls to his phone went to voicemail.
The report stated that Deonath told his girlfriend he had to collect money from someone. However, he did not say where and from whom.
