Ashmin Mahadeo who was shot on October 1 at her Williamsburg, Corentyne house, succumbed last evening at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
The 30-year-old Lot 25 D Williamsburg, Corentyne, resident was shot in the back of her neck resulting in the bullet exiting the lower area of her jaw on October 1. Since then, she had remained hospitalized in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. However, she was recently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she died yesterday just around 7.30 pm.
Her relatives had said that doctors informed them that Mahadeo was paralyzed as a result of the injury.
Her brother, Naresh Mahadeo, last evening confirmed that the woman had passed away, noting that relatives after receiving the news were heading to the hospital.
According to information, the shooting incident occurred on a Sunday around 7:40 am, while Mahadeo and her fiancé, Neil Madramootoo, who had been together for seven years, were packing things in a vehicle the fiancé was using as they had a bridal shower planned for that day.
Naresh, 32, who resides overseas but was visiting for the event, had said that they were asleep in the house when they heard a loud explosion.
“When I came out my bed and I come by the door I see my sister lay down by the gate and blood coming through her mouth and I rushed and go out and my wife turn her over and I run out on the street and when I asked he [the fiancé] he said somebody shot her and he go in the house,” the brother had said.
Naresh’s wife, an overseas-based nurse, began doing Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation on her sister-in-law. According to the brother, after he did not see anyone on the street he also returned to offer assistance to his sister.
The relatives had confirmed that investigators found a firearm in Mahadeo’s room in the ceiling.
A police source had confirmed that both Mahadeo and her fiancé’s phones were located in a haversack allegedly belonging to the fiancé and were in the police’s possession.
The relatives had said that Madramootoo had denied knowing where Mahadeo’s phone was shortly after the incident and had suggested that the person who shot her had stolen the phone.
Madramootoo, an engineer attached to The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, was charged with the attempted murder of Mahadeo late last month, and placed on $500,000 bail.
