Freeport man shot dead while asleep

Murder victim Devevdra Seepersad and his wife Rosanna.
Murder victim Devevdra Seepersad and his wife Rosanna.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just four days before her 40th birthday, Rosanna Seepersad’s husband of 23 years was killed in their bedroom while she was allegedly heavily medicated and asleep.

Devevdra Seepersad was fatally shot while in the bedroom of his home at Sooknanan Trace, Calcutta No. 2 in Freeport sometime after 9 pm on Sunday.

Seepersad was an auto body and straightener.

Speaking to the Guardian Media yesterday, Rosanna, 39, said her husband went to bed after 9 pm and was the first to fall asleep.

“All over was locked up. All the doors were locked up, we went in our bed and he fall asleep first. We take off the TV and my son and I, we went to sleep and fall asleep also. We didn’t hear any noise at all or hear if anyone come inside but I suffer with high blood pressure and I take medication and when I take the medication I fall asleep. It’s a strong medication the doctor put me on and I does fall asleep strong for a few hours,” Rosanna said.

“When I catch myself and wake up, I just hear a sound, a noise and when I hear I jump up in the bed. I didn’t get off the bed I stay in the bed and when I watch I didn’t see my husband, when I watch on the floor I see him on the floor.

“I just grab my son and I pull him off the bed and I run straight to the front door, open the front door and start to scream, scream and bawl and my neighbour, my cousin husband come and meet me and all I can tell him is come fast something happen to Deva and he in the middle room. When he come and gone in the middle room he say he got shot.”

She said her husband was discharged from the hospital on January 2, 2022, after a long battle with COVID-19.

Asked why someone would have wanted her husband dead, she replied: “I don’t think he had anything against anybody or anything like that.”

Rosanna said the incident has left her afraid to even return to her home.

“Right now it very hard for me and my son because it’s so frightful. We don’t know what could happen. We fraid to go back there because we don’t know what could happen, if these people will come back.”