Neil Madramootoo who was charged last month with the attempted murder of his fianceé, Ashmin Mahadeo, yesterday turned himself into the police after Mahadeo succumbed at the New Amsterdam Hospital on Monday evening.
Mahadeo was shot on October 1 at her Williams-burg, Corentyne house and succumbed at the New Amsterdam Public Hospi-tal just around 7.30 pm on Monday.
Commander of Region Six, Shivpersaud Bacchus, when contacted yesterday said, that Madramootoo turned himself in at the Major Crimes Investiga-tion Unit and was placed in custody. He said, “System in place to have subject transported to Region 6.”
According to a police source, following the woman’s death on Monday evening, investigators made checks for Madramootoo at his Shoe Lane, New Amsterdam residence but were unable to locate him.
On the morning of October, 1, Mahadeo, 30, of Lot 25 D Williamsburg, Corentyne, was shot in the back of her neck resulting in the bullet exiting the lower area of her jaw.
Following the incident, the woman had remained hospitalized in a critical condition at the George-town Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. How-ever, on Friday last she was transferred back to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she succumbed.
Her relatives had said that doctors informed them that Mahadeo was paralyzed as a result of the injury.
Meanwhile, according to the police and relatives the post-mortem examination was carried out yesterday by Government Patho-logist Dr. Vivekanand Bridgemohan at the Bailey Funeral Home located in Number 4 Village, West Coast Berbice.
Commander Bacchus in a statement yesterday had initially said that, “It must be noted that Doctor Bridgemohan didn’t give a cause of death; he reported to investigators that he have to see the deceased hospital records hence he will give the cause of death within 24 hours.”
Ashmin’s brother, Naresh Mahadeo yesterday said that he was left confused as to why the autopsy results were not issued immediately. He said, the pathologist informed him to “give him a call tomorrow (today) morning for the results.”
The brother said that he could not bear to wait out the day and decided to phone the pathologist yesterday afternoon and was told “You get the media involved in this”, after which the call was ended.
However, around 7.30 pm last evening, Bacchus said that the cause of death was given as septic anaemia shock, lobar pneumonia and gunshot injuries.
Meanwhile, Bacchus yesterday confirmed that a female has since been placed in police custody as well and promised to communicate details of her arrest.
Thumbprint
According to a police source, the female who is also from New Amsterdam was arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice and is accused of attempting to coerce the now-deceased woman to affix her thumbprint on a document that reportedly intended to clear the accused in the matter.
According to Naresh, last Thursday the female who is in custody, along with a female attorney at law connected to the accused visited his sister at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
“I couldn’t go the day so I call my wife relative in town to just go over and check on her (Ashmin). When the lady go, she meet (female in custody) and the lawyer and she ask them them is who and the girl said she is Ashmin friend and that this is Ashmin lawyer and then them walk out.”
He said, the relative immediately made contact with him and queried Ashmin as to what the duo were doing there. “I go the Friday and Ashmin tell me how them seh mommy old and na gon able take care of her and them promise what what them can do for her and them try settle the matter with her.”
Further, according to the brother after Ashmin was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospi-tal he was told that the female who was arrested visited the New Amster-dam Public Hospital with the document on Monday evening before his sister succumbed. “I can’t tell you if they get her thumbprint or not but she went there with the paper for it. Me hear the paper get that he didn’t shoot her and that I am forcing her to say that”, he said.
Naresh lashed out at the medical professionals at both hospitals for allowing persons unknown to them to visit their sister given the circumstances surrounding the matter.
“All Ashmin friends them that want go call us and ask permission and we let them go and them just allow these people to go in. She is not Ashmin friend”, he stated.
The disappointed man said that he believes persons are intervening in the matter and is frustrated at how the entire situation is being handled. “I can’t blame the police because they do as much as they can but every time they do something like people a call and give them next order”, he lamented.
The shooting occurred on Sunday, October, 1st around 7:40 a.m., while Mahadeo and her fiancé, Neil Madramootoo, who had been together for the last seven years were packing things in a vehicle that the fiancé was using as they had a bridal shower planned for the day.
Naresh, 32, who resides overseas but was visiting for the event, had said that they were asleep in the house when they heard a loud explosion.
“When I came out my bed and I come by the door I see my sister lay down by the gate and blood coming through her mouth and I rushed and go out and my wife turn her over and I run out on the street and when I asked he (the fiancé) he said somebody shot her and he go in the house”, the brother said.
Mahadeo’s wife, an overseas-based nurse, began doing Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation on the injured woman. According to the brother, after he did not see anyone on the street he also returned to offer assistance to his sister.
The relatives had
confirmed that investigators found a firearm in Mahadeo’s room in the ceiling.
A police source had confirmed that both Mahadeo’s and her fiancé’s phones were located in a haversack allegedly belonging to the fiancé and are in the police’s possession. The relatives had said, that Madramootoo had denied knowing where Mahadeo’s phone was shortly after the incident and had suggested that the person who might have shot her had stolen the phone.
Madramootoo was eventually in late October charged with the attempted murder of Mahadeo, and placed on $500,000 bail.
