A 27-year-old butcher was gunned down in his Liverpool backyard around 3 am yesterday leaving residents of the neighbouring communities of Lancaster, Manchester, and Liverpool on the Corentyne reeling in shock.

 

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Dead is Gangaram Busjit, also known as Vicky, a father of two. His family, relatives and villagers are at a lost to explain why he was killed and by whom.

According to his wife, Renita Balcarran, Vicky got up around 3 am to go to the pit latrine, which is located not too far from the house. A few minutes later, she said, she heard gunshots outside, then she heard her husband screaming.

Balcarran said she did not get up right away as she was nursing their six-month-old baby. Instead she called out to her father-in-law asking him to check and see what was happening. He returned and told her that Vicky was "just lying down there in the yard". On checking they discovered that he had been shot in the head and hip and was dead.

Shannah Surujmohan, who lives in the same yard, said she heard the gunshots followed by "screaming and hollering," then one or two more shots, then nothing. She said her husband and Vicky would usually get up around 4 am every Saturday to slaughter cattle.

Surujmohan said she believed that if her husband had gone out there, he too may have been killed. She felt that Vicky's killers must have been waiting for him and her husband.

When this newspaper visited the scene at around 5 am, scores of villagers were already milling around trying to figure out what had happened since Vicky, as they all called him, was said to be a very nice person who did not have any problems with anyone.

Busjit's body lay face down in the mud, clad only in a t-shirt and underwear.

Earlier this year bandits had attacked and robbed the Busjit family.

Besides his wife and two young children aged two years old and six months old, Busjit has left to mourn his parents and three sisters.

Just last month Manches-ter resident Medina Camille De Jonge was murdered at her home. The woman was found by her children on the morning of September 25 lying in a pool of blood; her throat had been slashed.

A man, Shaun Tyndall has since been charged with her murder and was remanded to prison.