POLICE were unable to arrive at a motive for yesterday morning’s murder of maxi-taxi driver Ronald Ramgoolie, who was shot and killed outside his Brazil home.
Police said that around 6.30 a.m. Ramgoolie had walked out of his home at Savannah Drive, Brazil village, and while checking on his 24-seater maxi-taxi known as “General”, he was ambushed and shot multiple times. The killer then fled.
Relatives and neighbours who heard the gunshots came out and found Ramgoolie dead on the roadway near his maxi-taxi.
Officers from the San Raphael Police Station were the first responders and they were later joined by officers of the Region Two Homicide Bureau and Crime Scene Unit.
Police could not say what prompted the attack on Ramgoolie since he was not known to be involved in anything illegal or suspicious.
President of the Route Two Maxi-Taxi Association Brenton Knights described Ramgoolie as a “cool, cool, calm and dedicated driver. He was very ambitious and when I met him about five years ago, he had been driving a small maxi-taxi, but then he elevated himself and he had been driving a bigger maxi,” said Knights.
“Life is a precious thing and any loss of life will never be good because it is not even our own to take,” he added.
“So I find what happened to him was totally unacceptable regardless of what were the circumstances.”
He described Ramgoolie as a dedicated family man.
The murder toll stood at 190 up to last night while the toll on this date last year was also 190.
