– was reportedly playing with gun
The owner of Timeless Taxi Service of Bath Experiment, West Coast Berbice died during a drinking session at a Chinese restaurant around 2.30 pm yesterday and reports are that he shot himself in the head.
Stabroek News learnt that Doulatram ‘Dara’ Singh, 35, a father of four was playing with a gun when he accidentally pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the right side of his head. Singh did not own a gun and no one could say where he might have acquired the one he was allegedly playing with.
Doulatram “Dara” Singh
According to reports, Singh was drinking with a friend at Lai Li Jiu Jia Chinese Restaurant yesterday. Two of the restaurant’s employees were reportedly present and the friend allegedly left Singh to go to the washroom. While there, he reportedly heard an explosion and on checking realized that the man had shot himself.
A large crowd gathered in front of the restaurant yesterday where the police were taking finger prints and conducting investigations; the gates to eating house were locked.
Through the iron-grille gates, this newspaper could see Singh’s body still in a sitting position on a chair that was braced against the wall. His head was tilted to the right and he was partly covered with blood. A pool of blood was on the floor. Four beer bottles were on the table.
The man’s wife, Christine Singh, who was inconsolable, told this newspaper that she and her husband had no problems and she questioned why he would want to kill himself.
Curious villagers mill around as undertakers from the Anthony Funeral Establishment removed the body yesterday.
She said her husband never even any showed signs of wanting to end his life. In fact he had just bought concrete blocks to extend their one-flat unpainted concrete house in time for Christmas.
The distraught woman kept lamenting, “we na had no problems; if we had problems and this de happen to he ah woulda say that’s why…”
In tears, she recalled that her husband had taken their children home from school for lunch and after they had eaten, he took them back to school, but did not return home. She said he called her a few times and told her he would “come just now.” But “just now” never reached, she said.
A distraught Christine Singh, surrounded by her children, Marissa, 11 (left); Doulatram Jr, 13 (right), eight-year-old Joshua (second, right) and six-year-old Travis (seated on mother) sits in front of the concrete blocks her husband had bought to extend their house.
Christine said he did not go to pick up the children after school and it was when she saw them arrive home on their own that she called his cellular phone. She said a female employee of the taxi service answered it and told her that he had shot himself and was dead. Christine said her husband did not own a gun. The employee, Neeta Persaud told this newspaper that Singh was at the taxi base located at Bath Settlement in the morning and he was in good spirits.
Persaud said she was dropping off a passenger at Bush Lot around 3 pm when she received a call from the friend he was drinking with that “Dara shoot heself and he dead and he gat to call the police.”
She said that she went to the restaurant and was told that her employer had been playing with the gun.
The man leaves to mourn his wife and four children, Doulatram Jr., 13, Marissa, 11, eight-year-old Joshua and six-year-old Travis. He was also taking care of three other children.
Rum on rampage yet again!!!! This time the wife and children were not abused (as far as I know) but they are certainly going to be affected nevertheless. The destruction of a life that had the responsiblity of atleast five other people. Again we see the manifestation of, ” Rum till I die.” Rum goes in at one end, reason and reality comes through the onther end and into the urinal.
I feel for the young wife and her children and I hope they eventually put their lives together. This is yet another episode in the sad saga of the rum story.
Johnny it’s not de rum bro that killed him…….
Don’t go soft on rum now….rum bin deh fuh dankey years and will be there forever and ever……lets wait and see how this turns out….it’s a bullet to the head we talking about here bro…..not-Rum……take care always:::::::
READ AGAIN NO RUM IN THE ARTICLE?
sick and tired of the stupidity, no more comments.
freespeech
im with you on this…..
stop the drinking and turn to god it will be better
Alcohol and Guns………..
Clearly a lethal combination.
Is there ANY hope for Guyana?
Not anytime soon, Guyana is going to the “DOGS”
my friend Satish.
It can happen in any country. Playfully pointing a gun to your head or in anyone’s direction is plain stupidity.
what do you really mean by saying …is there any hope for guyana?
Good people do foolish things when the ‘evil spirit ‘(ALCOHOL) enters their body. Sorry for the wife and kids though.
zainno::u said>
Good people do foolish things when the ‘evil spirit ‘(ALCOHOL) enters their body.
wow….
and i suppose that bad people do good things when alcohol enters their bodies…
Should Shariah laws be implemented for doing “stupid things” like consuming alcohol????
teach us please……………………………………….
Without getting too basic about this zainno, I agree with evileyes that wholescale adoption of Shariah law is NOT THE ANSWER.
Whereas I do see sense in the death penalty (by cynaide injection) for premeditated murder; you must bear in mind that it was SOBER SHARIA LAW users who slaughtered 300 innocent civilians in cold blood in Mumbai last week.
It is indeed a great worry that there are stupid people carrying guns in Guyana and those bloggers who advocate the right to bear arms for everyone in Guyana should learn a lesson from this tragic news.
stupid is as stupid does – if this was an accident. this is really crazy. I wonder if is was an accidental discharge or he actually committed suicide? All the same this is another sad story and another sneseless lost of life. education is the key and folks need to know that guns are not a toy – on the other had they know that already for now that is all dey use to kill each other with..
What could of made him take his life? If it’s an accident he surely dosen’t know how to manipulate a weapon, now four little kids fatherless and wife a widow, a sad Christmas for the family.
My sympathy to the family.
This story is quite plausible, nevertheless I will suspend my judgement until more information is made available.
There are lots of people in Gt who resorted to purchasing illegal guns in an attempt to protect themselves. This is mainly due to the unrealistic “process” that one has to endure when trying to acquire one legally, coupled with a lack of confidence in the GPF / State to offer them protection.
The problem with this is that the lack of formal training leaves the door way open for accidents like this.
It’s just sad that a father and husband had to go like this. My condolences to the entire family.
training or no traning, this would have still occurred because he was drunk
When keeping it real goes terribly wrong!
STRES A MEK AWE DO FOOLISHNESS