PH driver kills alleged robber during attack

Ralph Ban­warie

A PH dri­ver killed one of two men who al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to rob him of his ve­hi­cle ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the de­ceased as 21-year-old Ronald Singh of House Vil­lage, Coryal. He was re­port­ed­ly the son of a po­lice of­fi­cer.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 5 am, the PH dri­ver was ply­ing his white Nis­san Y12 AD Wag­on for hire when he picked up two pas­sen­gers at Bar 69 and Lounge along the East­ern Main Road, Guaico. When asked where they were go­ing, the men told him to take them to Guaico Tamana Road.

Roopan pro­ceed­ed along Guaico Tamana Road as re­quest­ed.

Po­lice said that up­on reach­ing the vicin­i­ty of Home­town Su­per­mar­ket along Guaico Tamana Road, the men asked the dri­ver to stop. He com­plied, and the front-seat pas­sen­ger al­leged­ly struck him in the mouth with a Rude­boy glass bot­tle, caus­ing in­juries.

The pas­sen­ger then al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to climb in­to the dri­ver’s seat. Roopan armed him­self with a fil­let knife that was in the dri­ver’s side door pock­et and stabbed the man once in the up­per right chest area.

Po­lice said the two men then ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle, with one col­laps­ing. The oth­er man ran off.

Roopan drove to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, where he made a re­port and hand­ed over a red-han­dled knife.