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Home > UPDATE: Murder of Corporate Area businessman suspected contract killing

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Investigators probing the murder of Corporate Area businessman Richard Ramdial are looking into claims that the incident may have been a contract killing.

Ramdial was shot several times as he sat in his Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle in a line of traffic along Ruthven Road in St Andrew yesterday afternoon.

More than a dozen bullets were reportedly fired into the vehicle.

It’s reported that about 4:30 two men came up to the businessman's car and opened fire.

They then fled.

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The businessman was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.


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