Arjune Gobin dead

Nand Persaud & Co security guard shot dead by bandits, manager hospitalised

Written by Jeune Bailey Vankeric

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

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A security guard was killed instantly, while his employer was injured, when they were confronted by a hail of bullets while responding for a call for help at Surendra Ganesh’s residence, at Wellington Park, Corentyne, shortly after 02:00hrs on Monday.

Dead is Arjune Gobin, 47, of Bloomfield Village, Corentyne, while his employer, Rajindra Persaud , Manager of NAND PERSAUD & CO , the largest exporter of extra long grain parboiled rice and white rice in Berbice , sustained an injury to his head as a bullet grazed him.
He is currently in a stable condition a private city hospital.
According to Vasantie Ganesh, called Sandra, she was awakened by a banging and gunshots shortly before 02:00hrs. She alerted her children Avinash, 20 ,and Vinaya, 14, and telephoned her sibling , Rajindra Persaud , who resides at Number 35 Village, some four miles away.
She told her brother that her home was under attack.
Persaud left his home in one of his vehicles, while his employee, Arjune Gobin, followed in a Mitsubishi Pajero.
When he reached his sister’s home, Persaud’s vehicle came under fire from the bandits, and he crashed into an utility pole, ran into a trench and ended up on a dam. It was then that a bullet grazed his head.
Meanwhile, Gobin, who was motoring behind his employer, was shot in the head, and it is believed that he died instantly. During the ordeal, police assistance was sought, and it was after their arrival that the injured Persaud entered his sister’s home.
In the meantime , Vasantie Ganesh’s husband, Surendra, who had left their home about a hour before en route to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, was in the vicinity of Rising Sun, West Coast Berbice, when he received a telephone call informing him of the attack.
He immediately returned home , where he observed a gaping hole on the southern wall of the two storey house.
Police said the bandits, about six in number, used a sledge hammer to break into the house.

Sledge hammer to break into the house.

After entering the lower flat, the gang fired several shots from nine millimeter pistols. Several spent shells were recovered at the scene.

Spent shells

All this time, Sandra Ganesh and her children were in a locked room in the upper flat.
In the upper flat, two of the three bedrooms were ransacked , and the family reported that $5,500 was missing.

Meanwhile , at Gobin’s home, his wife Jenny Gobin, with their four children, Amoit , Amresh, Ambika and Anjanie, recalled hearing the tooting of a car horn shortly after 03:00hrs , but did not venture to look outside.
However, shortly afterwards, a relative telephoned, informing her that her husband was not well, and had to be taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
In company with relatives, she ventured to the health institution, where she observed blood at the entrance of the Emergency Unit; and on entering , she was told that her husband was dead.
Police are continuing their investigations, and no arrest has yet been made.