Sureshdyal ‘Aemron’ Kalipersaud, 28, who was killed in an accident on Saturday evening, had returned for a surprise Father’s Day visit.

Roy Kalipersaud, of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, said his son, a mechanic who lived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands for eight years, would come home every year. He said his son called a friend to pick him up at the airport and when he got home he said joyfully, “Ah come to give y’all a big surprise.”

In tears, the emotional Roy told this newspaper, “This is the surprise….” The man was happy that his son came home in time to spend Father’s Day with him and he was finding it hard to get over the disaster.

At the time of the accident, Sureshdyal was a passenger of a car, HB 7214, driven by Shawn Ramcharran, 23, which hit Tony ‘Rocky’ Thayloo, 25, a pedal cyclist. The car also collided with another car, HB 6777 that Steve Ramsarran,

23, was driving and the impact sent it crashing into a veranda post of a house and into a fence that separates the neighbour’s yard.

Ramsarran, of 58 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, was taken into police custody on Sunday morning while Ramcharran, called ‘Fat Boy’ of Sheet Anchor, Canje, who was hospitalized, was arrested following his discharge yesterday. Reports are that the drivers of both cars had been racing.

What is making it worse for Kalipersaud’s family was that a close family-friend collapsed and died after seeing his body at the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary.

Roy said the woman, Evelyn Elliot, 65, who was closely attached to her son, worked at the hospital as a security guard. He said she knew of the accident that night but she did not know who the victims were. The following morning she learnt Sureshdyal had died but she did not believe it.

She asked to see the body at the mortuary to confirm it and it was at that stage that she collapsed and subsequently died, sending the Kalipersaud family into “double mourning.”

The man said he had known Elliot for 45 years. She moved to the area from North West with her husband, who passed away a few years ago. They treated Elliot, who had no children, as though she was a part of the family and had even provided her with a house nearby.

Roy said the woman was very kind to his children since they were small and recalled that “when their mother used to beat them for not cleaning their boots she would come over and wash it for them… she was very nice.”

Sureshdyal always remembered her kindness and whenever he came to Guyana “she [Elliot] would be the first person to get something from him. Whenever he sent us a parcel something would be in it for her.”

Meanwhile, the man said when his son left home he had US$1,500, over $100,000, a “big diamond stud earring, a big fat gold chain weighing one pound” and a watch valued US$600 in his possession.

He was disappointed that persons robbed him of everything. He said when he got to the hospital he heard the police saying that his son “get run through.”

He did not know what they were talking about until he saw his son’s body at the mortuary and realised that his pockets were pulled out. He said he heard about the accident about half hour later.

His son left home around 1 pm to go out with his friend, Ramcharran. Sureshdyal’s wife was expected to arrive from Tortola yesterday for his funeral.
Meanwhile, Thayloo’s mother, Dero Thayloo, 42, had said that she was at home when she heard the impact and ran out to investigate. When she got to the scene she was heartbroken when she saw her son’s bloodied body. She said he had just left home on his cycle to purchase a phone card when tragedy struck. Thayloo, the eldest of four was the sole breadwinner of the home after his father died a few years ago.