Taxi driver gunned down

Oswald Rambarran

A  West Ruimveldt taxi driver was gunned down around 8.30 pm  yesterday in Albouystown and succumbed while receiving  medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The dead man, Oswald ‘Junior’ Rambarran, aged 42, resided in the West Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown.

An eyewitness who was with Rambarran when he was killed, related to Stabroek News the events leading up to the shooting which occurred on King Edward Street.

“We de just come back  from buying food and he was coming out of his side of the car when  I look up and see a motorbike with two man pon it pull up at de corner deh (Sussex and King Edward streets). De man at the back jump off and come running and start firing shots …he fire like five shots and then run back in de bike direction.”