The husband of the Guyanese woman who was found dead in her Schenectady, New York apartment on Saturday afternoon has been charged with her murder.
Yetraj Mangar
Sixty-year old Yetraj Mangar, who is also Guyanese, appeared in the Schenectady City Court yesterday morning after he was charged with second-degree murder of his wife Jaiwanti Mangar, a report in the Schenectady Daily Gazette said. He was refused bail and is currently being held in the Schenectady County jail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
The post-mortem examination revealed that the woman died from severe skull fractures and brain injuries resulting from blunt-force trauma to her head. According to Robert Carney, the Schenectady County District Attorney, the couple appeared to have had a history of unreported domestic violence. Carney was unsure as to what weapon was used in the attack but said that the violence apparently stemmed from an argument concerning the couple’s relocation.
Yetraj wanted to return to his homeland while his wife wanted to remain in the USA. The couple had migrated to the USA in 2000.
Jaiwanti Mangar
Carney also said that initial reports about her husband being out of the country when she was killed proved false. And one media entity reported that the suspect attended a service for his wife at the church the evening after she had died.
Police department spokes-man Officer Kevin Green was unsure if Mangar had a criminal record and could offer few additional details about the incident.
According to a report in the daily gazette Jaiwanti Mangar was discovered on the floor of her apartment at 402 Division Street around 2:45 pm on Saturday afternoon. She was discovered by a relative who called the police.
Meanwhile a funeral service for the woman was held at the Faith Deliverance Tabernacle Church, where she was remembered as a soft-spoken and hard working woman.
If this couple were guided properly, they would have realized that living in the USA was no piece of cake, especially people of their ages. Because of the age factor, it would have been difficult to get a job, and to maintain one.
But hey, murder was not the solvent.
u know when i mention the other day mybelieyed about the husband my view was not seen ,experience taught you about these things. any way now he would have to pay for his crime .now an innocence woman is dead may god bless her soul and she rest in peace.
I had him as my first suspect and he should feel the fulll force of the law-He should have remigrate by himself–violence is never the solution to disagreement
My condolences to the family
Paul you my boy…i totally agree with everything you say and he was the first suspect for me too, my condolences to her family.
Uh huh! Right about that one. Just like you, the husband was my first suspect. I wonder where is the smart guy, can’t even remember his name now, who always blogging that Domestic Violence is a “poor people” thing and “uneducated” should not get married. I think he lives right here in the US or C’da.
Where are you man??????????????? What you have to say about this one, huh?
America is TOUGH, like another blogger said and at their ages, they would have had to be pulling a straight 9 – 5 or even a second job to realise their dreams. One thing though, why didn’t the children report the incidents of violence?
Deep condolences to Mrs Mangar’s children and relatives
His old Guyanese ways kick in, MAN A BOSS and woman fi obey. I hope he gets a life sentence.
man have to respect woman
woman don t have to obey that was alongago
not any more*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-****-*-*-*-***-*-*-*-***
People in the US especially New York beginning to think that this kind of action is a ‘Guyanese thing’ – our image is really taking a beating (for those who care about images)
Guys – “STOP THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”! When there is a problem – Talk it over – get family and other help- if it doesn’t work then life must still go on!!
To the courts – SHOW NO MERCY!
To the relatives of the deceased – My condolences.
If you are in the NY, USA, you will be happy to know that in the downstate area of Long Island during the past few months, three prominently white neighborhoods suffered from such crimes.
In the first case, the police canine unit found human remains in the BBQ pit. The Husband was taken in for questioning.
In the second incident, the husband had declared himself homosexual to the wife who maintained cordial relations with him for the kids sake. Once she began dating though, she was found barely conscious on her kitchen floor. It was later determined that the husband had made a brew of poison coffee for her. After suffering severly for several days she succombed.
Can you forget the third incident where the husband went out to an overnite spree with “friends”. When he came home and was accused by his wife, he suffocated her and deposited her naked body in a different part of the neighborhood. Made pityful pleas for the public to pass on information about his missing wife. Three days the found her naked corps, near the area he had left her diaabled car, and poketbook. Evidence later found that the note that he had told police he received from his wife on Monday morning was rigged by him!!!
All three were well educated men, a doctor, a stock broker and another business man. Now image battering anyone!!!!!
Regarding the Magners case, it is not always so. My parents were in their early sixties when they came to the US and my father retrained and is currently working in a health facility. My mother does HHA work in private homes. With the help they receive from us they are able to make it. At their age its a liability yes but not insurmountable.
he was my first suspect 2 but i know the law would caugth up with him what a shame if she do not want to go home sit and talk it over because with he job there is a lot of benifit job wise, plus other purks.what a shame
He will not do life. When his sentence is complete in the usa, they will dump him in Guyana.
Time for the Guyana government to take stock of the deep seated trauma done to Afreekans, Amerindians and Indians by the europeans.
These behaviors engender a sign of hopelessness and thus crimes. Nobody counseled my great grandmother Christina, the slave woman, she thus raised my grandmother without any therapy. My grandmother in turn raised my mother without any therapy. My mother in turn raised us without any therapy or acknowledgment of the past wrongs to her people. I am the first one in the family to graduate from higher education and that was because LFS Burnham gave me the “Audacity to Hope”
Time to hold the slave masters accountable for the crimes of slavery and indenture ship. Time for the Amerindians to get redress for the crimes perpetuated against them.
Time to give Guyanese “The Audacity to Hope” with true Leadership.
“Keep it “LIT”
“Love and “Light”
Empress Menen, we should all take responsibility for our own actions. Most of our ancestors were slaves that doesn’t mean we should be involved in those heinous crimes. We have to rise above all those things that happened to our people in the past and strive to make life easier for our kids. There are some many people from South America/WI/Caribbean living in North America and trying to make a decent living. If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen, he should have gone back home. All those people sitting at home and feeling you should be sending a barrel every week have to come to North America and get a taste for themselves. It’s no walk in the park, you play the fool with your job, someone is waiting in the slips to take it.
I dont think he will survive his sentence once found guilty and convicted . He should have remigrated and enjoy all the “duty free concessions ” given by the Guyana Govt .
As a Guyanese who emigrated since 1982, I must say that life is definitely better for the people who put their two cents in. By this I mean the ones who get the opportunity to go to college and grad school etc.
America does discriminate but you stand a better opportunity when you are educated and many of the people who migrate here have one thing in common. THEY ARE NOT PREPARED!!!! They almost all have relatives who go home flashing the latest styles as flashed on TV screens around the world. They hand out cash like its growing on trees and so they perpetrate a false picture of what life in the USA or many of the developed countries is really like.
Then comes the reality check when the ones back home finally get the chance and finally realize that there is no money tree and that its through hard work and sweat and loud crying not only tears that a lot of things are done, that they realize that… no way better than yard… there they do not have to go to work when it rained hard, blizzards do not give you the right to stay home. That the education you received here is not comparable and you have to retrain for the job here. Reality begins to sink in and then its when a lot of them realize that the image they have of the country is not what it should be.
My solution, provide decent jobs we proper renumeration for the folks right there in Guyana. Provide proper education and training programs for the folks so that they will be encouraged to stay at home and enjoy all the liberties that get taken away once you step into another man’s land especially a developed country.
He did not have to kill her he could have relocated alone
Now he has robbed their children of their mother and father for he may rot in jail
My condolences to the familly.
Most people in Guyana believe that when you come to America all yo problems done. But little do they know that life in the States is just a whole lot of other problems. I know of many Guyanaese families who came here and fell apart; sad to see this one end in tragedy.
East coast you said it right some times i feel the same way life would be better in Guyana and familes would of still be the same loving one and not trying to out do each others and not speaking to each others. It is hard here and some of us cannot cope with what life has to offer and some get upset and resolve to violents. That is why there must be at least one strong family member to keep us together and amend things.
Yes, it is hard to readjust to life in this country. frm what we were used to, it is indeed a cultural schok to us immigrants. However, many of us just lay back, work at a menial job , do not attempt to better themselves. When you do not have money, an education is the way out of the poverty of life. It is the ticket to a better life for immigrants. But we come to thid country and life our life ‘as usual’, Let the pieces fall wherever they fall. This is the wrong approach. we left our beautiful Guyana for this new and strange land. It is definitely a land of great opportunity. But if we do not grasp the opportunities opened to us and make something of ourselves, we have only ourselves to blame. Life is a system of causes and effects. What we plant we reap ( to put it in Guyana terms)
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Way to go Ankoko I am with you on this. “Stop the violence against Women”.
Sharma, you put it so well. sometimes I wish I had never come here with my family, maybe if all of us who had to leave for a “better Life”, had stayed, Guyana would have been a much nicer place to live and raise a famiily.
The grass always look greener on the other side. And sometimes these things end sadly.
Maybe????
My sympathy to the families of the wife…..may she rest in peace.