A Doubles Vendor was shot and critically wounded during an assassination attempt after he was lured by a woman who ordered 1,000 bara months after the victim’s home was shot up by men with high-powered weapons.
• 31-year-old Richard Ramkissoon of Orange Grove Trace, St Augustine, was shot in the chest and remains in critical condition at the hospital after a gunman opened fire on him and a 21-year-old in an attempt to kill them early on Wednesday 2nd November, 2022.
• According to police around 6am, Ramkissoon and the 21-year*-*-old man, went to the O’Meara Plaza at O’Meara Road in Arima to deliver 1,000 bara for a customer who said the items were to be shipped abroad.
• A woman emerged from a grey Toyota Station Wagon, with a hoodie on her head and a mask over her face, and paid Ramkissoon $600 in exchange for the bara.
• As the men took the cooler from their vehicle to place in the woman’s car, a male suspect emerged from the front passenger seat armed with a gun and fired 20 shots at both victims, who ran across the roadway in the direction of the abandoned NP gas station.
• Ramkissoon fell into a drain at the side of the roadway. The other man was unhurt and the suspects quickly fled the scene.
• Cpl. Damien Ali and other officers of the Arima CID responded to the shooting and took Ramkissoon to the Arima General Hospital where he was treated. Robbery definitely wasn’t the motive.
• Ramkissoon once worked with the Sauce Doubles family but left and opened his own Doubles stand named Richard’s Doubles in Sangre Grande.
FLASHBACK:
On Sunday 18th September 2022:
• Three gunmen, with assault weapons, opened fire on several persons at Ramkissoon’s home at Orange Grove Trace, St. Augustine, in broad daylight.
On Thursday 25th March 2021:
• 40-year-old doubles vendor Amar Hosein was shot and wounded at the same residence when he came out side to investigate noises. Hosein was shot in the head and hand.
Hosein was the 3rd vendor from the sauce doubles family to be attacked.
On December 22nd, 2020:
• Sauce doubles vendor Kareem Jervis, was shot and killed while conducting sales at the Sauce doubles stall along the Southern Main Road in Curepe.
On August 11th 2019:
• Gunmen shot and killed doubles vendor Shazard Manick, while he sold doubles at Sauce doubles stand in Curepe.
