Times of Suriname

Video surfaces of contractor’s execution

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New details have emerged as a video surfaced on social media showing the execution of KP Constructi­on’s boss, Kissoondat­h Premsukh. Premsukh was gunned down in the presence of his clients on Thursday last just after 17:00hrs at a constructi­on sites located at D’Urban Street, Lodge, next door to the Morgan Learning Center.

In the video that surfaced yesterday, Premsukh was seen conversing with two individual­s outside the yard of a constructi­on site when a man clad in black jeans with brown, long-sleeve shirt ran up from behind and began shooting at him. The gunman was seen fleeing up the road. The contractor was seen running into the yard where he collapsed. One of the individual­s who was with the contractor, a male, was not hit but he fell to the ground. A woman plunged into a heap of sand that was close by.

A few dogs that were present also tripped over each other as they scampered away. Eyewitness­es had detailed that the shooter hopped off a motorcycle and walked up to the contractor and opened fire him. The video depicted the motorcycle riding pass the scene and waiting for Premsukh’s executione­r some distance away. Kaieteur News understand­s that Premsukh was building a church at the location for the individual­s seen conversing with him in the video. The clients are said to be a pastor and his wife. Persons who witnessed what transpired said that they had left the scene moments after Premsukh was picked-up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporatio­n (GPHC). This newspaper had reached out to the pastor and his wife but they are too traumatize­d to speak.

Police have so far managed to apprehend a suspect for the shocking killing of the contractor. Sources have told Kaieteur News that the suspect arrested is a businessma­n well-known to

Premsukh. It was detailed that the contractor would frequent the suspect’s place to imbibe alcohol with friends. This publicatio­n had also received informatio­n that police were able to implicate the businessma­n in the crime after spent shells recovered from the scene matched a licensed firearm that was in his possession. In a recent developmen­t, new details are emerging that the businessma­n is also a well-known boat captain from the East Coast Demerara (ECD). The informatio­n that was relayed to this media house suggests that suspect in custody might also be linked to a previous attack on the contractor’s life only last month. Premsukh was shot twice in the leg on Father’s Day while entering a supermarke­t at Coldingen, ECD. It is unclear whether the businessma­n held had ordered or paid someone to commit the hit on Premsukh.

( Kaieter News )

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