(Trinidad Guardian) A St Augustine mother of three was fatally shot in front of her mother, sister and children as she knelt before her two killers begging for mercy.
Aneesa Ramkissoon pleaded with the gunmen to spare her life as her youngest child was only a month old, even offering them cash, but they still shot multiple times before calmly walking away and escaping through the rice fields surrounding Warner Street, Freeman Road, St Augustine.
The gunmen set the dried rice fields on fire as they escaped.
Ramkissoon, 27, was pronounced dead at hospital where she had been taken by her husband minutes after the shooting which occurred around 1 pm.
Describing the crime situation as “stink,” the victim’s sister Neisha Ramkissoon wept bitterly as she spoke about the death of a “generous , kind, loving, and an excellent mother who never left her children undone.”
She said she got a phone call from her sister just as the gunmen entered the area, warning her to lock up and stay inside. A short while later a neighbour called to tell her Aneesa had been shot.
“My sister is not a bad person to nobody in the back here,” she said.
Aneesa operated a small parlour at her home and was reportedly a money lender, while her husband was a coconut vendor. Neisha admitted that her sister had been involved in selling drugs but had given up that following the double murder of Darshan Ramnauth and Gino Shah on January 24 on the same street.
“It is not a robbery because my next sister was present and she was giving them a pile of blue notes. They never take it, they leave it. They come to kill my sister,” she said.
Neisha claimed Aneesa was owed more than $100,000 by persons who had borrowed money from her.
She said and her sister had spent Thursday stocking up on groceries and paying the monthly bills.
Lifting her hands in despair, she lamented: “She leave a newborn child. What my sister could do alyuh? They say we informing with the police in the double murder it had in the front dey . . . they say my sister was an informer.
“We don’t go no station, we don’t go nowhere. If we go out, is to buy goods and come back. That is the most we does do.”
Aneesa was mother of a three-year-old girl aged three and two boys aged six years and one month.
Neisha said the shooting was witnessed by their mother had just arrived at Aneesa’s home to drop off food.
“As my mother reach in, the gunmen reach in. The two children were in the room, my mother and my sister . . . because they ask for Aneesa and they make sure to get the camera box so no footage could come out.”
She reiterated that the killing was not a robbery.
