| Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell said yesterday that the murder of Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer Zulficar Namdar “appears to be a hit” and investigators have detained four suspects and impounded a car that the killers may have used.“It appears to us to be a hit, because the information that we got is that the men came in firing. The deceased was shot early…” the Commissioner said, while fielding questions from journalists at the Ministry of Home AffairsZulficar ‘Vicky’ Namdarboardroom.Reassuring that investigators were “working assiduously,” Brumell also revealed that an individual who had allegedly threatened Namdar was among those detained. Another suspect who was held with a phone that was stolen during the robbery is also in custody.“So far we have arrested four persons. I can go so far as to say that one of the phones missing from there (the crime scene) was discovered on somebody. We have arrested that person. I am sure that we will get somewhere with that. It is alleged that a car that was used, or was seen the night, which two persons got into… we have arrested the driver and we have that car There is also another person where it is alleged that threats were issued to the deceased. We have that person in custody.“We are working assiduously. We want to let the Guyanese public know we are trying our utmost. We are trying as hard as we can to solve this matter.”Kaieteur News was told that an in-law of the slain man is among those taken into custody on Wednesday and yesterday. Police have received information that the in-law had threatened Namdar over a financial dispute involving the victim and some of the in-law’s relatives.However,Cheap China Jerseys, a police source stressed that investigators have not ruled out robbery as a primary motive.This newspaper was told that two of the suspects have prior convictions for armed robbery. Investigators have swabbed the hands of the detained individuals for traces of gunpowder residue and are awaiting results.Zulficar ‘Vicky’ Namdar, 25, was shot once to his upper body after heavily-armed and masked gunmen invaded the family’s Lot 76 Third Street Meten–Meer–Zorg home on Tuesday night.The gunmen reportedly tried to shoot Namdar a second time, but instead wounded his 17-year-old employee Stephen Mohamed. He was shot in the left thigh. Police said that shells recovered at the scene revealed that some of the gunmen were carrying assault rifles.Mohamed said that Namdar was preparing to give a customer his change when one of the gunmen ordered the occupants of the grocery store to remain still. The bandit then ordered two of Namdar’s friends to lie on the ground and hand over their cell phones.According to Mohamed, his employer was about to put the change back in a drawer when the gunman shot him.While two of the gunmen manned the narrow street in front of the Namdars, two remained in the shop area with Namdar’s friends still face down on the ground. Two more entered the yard,Cheap Jerseys Online, where they met Namdar’s mother, 48-year-old Fazila Namdar and Carlo Ussuf, another one of the family’s employees.According to Mohamed,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, some of the masked gunmen then went to Ussuf. They apparently mistook him for Zulficar Namdar’s father, Goolzar Namdar, and repeatedly demanded to know “wheh the money deh.”He was saved when an undisclosed sum of cash, jewellery,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, passports and other documents were handed over.Fifty-year-old Goolzar Namdar,China Jersyes Cheap, a popular Commissioner of Oaths in the West Demerara area and the Regional Vice President of the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said that the bandits made off with more than $1M in charity and orphan money. They also took jewellery and important documents.The senior Namdar said that he was preparing for the last prayer of the day, according to Muslim custom, when he heard the commotion in the yard. He said he remained calm and did not give away his position, but was gravely concerned about his grandson who was running around asking for him.Mr. Namdar was still unaware that his son had been shot. He told Kaieteur News that he is a licenced firearm holder, but that his weapon was in the upper flat.Kaieteur News has confirmed that Zulficar Namdar, called ‘Vicky’, was charged in December 2008 for causing the death of eight-year-old Alecia Forrester.It was alleged that the child and her mother and stepfather were crossing Kidram Street, Vreed-en-Hoop on December 28, 2008, when a car, driven by Namdar,Wholesale Jerseys From China, struck Forrester. The child was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital. Her stepfather was hospitalized with injuries to his shoulder.It was alleged that Namdar drove past the Leonora Police Station. He was eventually apprehended at a police road-block at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara.He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.Namdar was released on $150,000 bail.According to the dead child’s grandmother, some of Namdar’s relatives visited her home shortly after the tragedy and offered them assistance with the funeral. She said that although she turned them away, the relatives returned after Forrester’s stepfather was released from hospital.However, she said that the driver’s relatives returned and offered the bereaved family a $600,000 financial settlement. The child’s mother said that they accompanied the family to a Charlotte Street building, where a female attorney drafted the documents for the settlement.The woman said that a Magistrate was then informed of the agreement and the causing death charge was dropped. |
