NY Guyanese confesses to second degree murder

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Vishan Parbhudial (left), Richard Baliraj (centre) and Dhanashar Persaud leave the lock-up at Schenectady yesterday after being charged with the Saturday killing of Ganesh Ramgoolam. (Times Union photo)
Vishan Parbhudial (left), Richard Baliraj (centre) and Dhanashar Persaud leave the lock-up at Schenectady yesterday after being charged with the Saturday killing of Ganesh Ramgoolam. (Times Union photo)

A Guyanese man on Friday pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of a fellow Guyanese before Schenectady County Judge Karen Drago and will face at least 17 years behind bars

Hours earlier, New Yorker Dhanashar “Tony” Persaud confessed in an eight-page sworn statement that he fatally shot Ganesh Ramgoolam on Feb. 20, 2010, on