Taxi driver Paul Reman, the first person shot in Tuesday’s deadly rampage by miner Deryck Kanhai that left five persons dead, said that the gunman would frequently fire shots off in the area.
“This man had big connections. A time he and he small brother went on the verandah and he ask he mother, ‘Yuh wan see I shoot me self?’ And he shoot he self in he mouth. That was in 2010… Some nights we would be working and he would come out jus suh and holler, ‘Is where they deh? They come to rob me!’ And he would start shooting jus suh,” Reman said.
Kanhai’s brother Aubrey has told Stabroek News that his brother did not have a firearm licence when he shot himself in 2010 but he somehow managed to acquire one in 2011. The man said that he was often told by relatives and residents that the man would randomly discharge a shot in front of his house but he had never witnessed these
