Fifteen-year-old Nicholas Verasammy yesterday tearfully recounted watching as a car ploughed into his three friends early Sunday morning, killing one and injuring two others, and being unable to do anything to warn them or prevent it, as police said they were still seeking the driver.
Dead is 18-year-old Parmanand Deokaran also known as “Jonny” or “Rago”, a welder of Success, East Coast Demerara. Two of his friends, Davendra Mangal, 20, of 27 Better Hope and Kayshawn Ramnarine, 17, of 184 Good Hope Phase 2, were admitted patients at city hospitals. Ramnarine, who sustained a broken arm was discharged last evening, while Mangal remains an inpatient, nursing a head injury.
According to reports, the driver who struck them down fled the scene, outside the Princess Hotel at Providence, on foot leaving the
