A cash crop farmer died last night after she was shot in the face by a bandit in an attempted robbery.
Pamela ‘Pam’ Kendall, 56, of Lot 19 #45 Village, Corentyne, was in her house at around 6:30 pm when a bandit approached her at the door and shot her in her face.
The killing will up the pressure on the Granger administration in the wake of an upsurge in crime in several parts of the country. A brazen robbery recently occurred at No. 48 Village on the Corentyne where bandits sawed a hole into a wooden wall of a house.
According to her husband, Deoram Sookchand, who was trapped in the bathroom while Pam was shot, the couple had just gotten home and he had proceeded to the bathroom which was about five feet away from where his wife was. The man told Stabroek News last night that while he was in the bathroom his wife had turned to the door to close it when he heard a blood-curdling scream from her followed by a loud “Pow” which he assumed to have been a gunshot. He said that after he heard the gunshot he “braced onto the wall and started to scream”. He later saw a hand coming towards the bathroom door but it suddenly disappeared and he heard the bandit’s footsteps running upstairs.
“It was blackout so he probably couldn’t have seen anything to take away so after about two minutes he run down back and disappear,” the man said, as he recalled the horrifying attack. When he finally decided to step outside to check on his wife he did not see her and was told by neighbours that she had gone over to her brother’s residence which is
