A foreign-used car dealer was abducted on Wednesday and murdered in a wooden shack in the hills of San Juan.
The businessman was identified as Julian Moonsammy, 56, of LP#32 Church Street, Cunupia.
According to a police report, at about 12.30 pm Moonsammy was at a construction site in St Helena when a white vehicle approached him. Police said two men exited and grabbed him and bundled him into his (Moonsammy’s) black Nissan Navara van and drove off. Eyewitnesses told police that the white car drove off behind Moonsammy’s vehicle.
Police said a tracking device on Moonsammy’s van led officers of Car Search to an area known as Sou Sou Lands, off Laventille Road, Febeau Village, San Juan. The officers who were accompanied later by officers of the Northern Division Task Force found the van at about 7 pm abandoned near a track leading up into the forested hills.
The officers trekked up the track about 250 feet where they found Moonsammy’s body lying in a wooden shack. He was shot in the chest.
Investigating officers said that they have no motive for his killing yet.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, Moonsammy’s son-in-law, only identified as Marlon, said that his father-in-law was building a house for his sister, who lives abroad and was not a contractor but just in charge of that project.
“He was helping his sister out by building this house for her, that is what he was doing in Madras (Road),” Marlon said.
He said his father-in-law also sold new and foreign-used automobile spare parts.
Marlon described Moonsammy as someone who did not have any enemies. He said Moonsammy was a pleasant and hardworking person.
“His life was work, him, work, home. In his spare time he spent with his grandchildren by taking them out and just being there for them. Things are just crazy right now and to find the words are very hard because we do not know why someone would want to kill him,” Marlon said.
The murder toll has now reached 210 for the year so far as compared to 194 same period last year. (RD)
