Almost two months after four-year-old Ramkaran Mohan was struck down by a motor car in front of his home at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, Police are still investigating the matter.
In fact, Traffic Chief Dion Moore told Guyana Times on Wednesday that the
Dead: Four-year-old Ramkaran Mohan
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that “further inquest” be held into the matter.
Moore explained that this inquiry will be held by a coroner, who will then make a pronouncement as to whether the female driver is criminally liable.
The family of the dead child has since been calling for justice and have staged several protests for Mohan’s killer to be charged.
Mohan, called “Ram” of Lot 1088 Tuschen New Housing Scheme died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital after he was struck and dragged under a moving car, a short distance from his house.
Guyana Times was told that the former Tuschen Nursery School pupil was returning home with his five-year-old brother and teenaged uncle after they went to a shop obliquely opposite their home to purchase a ball.
The lad’s grandmother, Bibi Nazmoon Khan, had related that her adopted son, the teenager who accompanied the brothers to the shop, related to them that he was standing at the corner of the road with each of the boys holding his hands, waiting to cross, when the silver Toyota Primo, bearing registration number PVV 5084, struck the child.
“The boy was waiting to cross with the two lil boys because he see the car coming so he was waiting for it to pass before they cross but then she (the car driver) swerve into the grass corner and hook the child. She run over the child and she drag him, she didn’t stop. The boy (teenager) had to run behind the car and stop the car, and then she know that she had the child under the car,” the grandmother explained.
Khan added that the woman removed the child from under the vehicle and had someone nearby drive them to the Leonora Cottage Hospital. However, due to the severity of his injuries, he had to be transferred to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where he subsequently succumbed.
The distraught woman had related that her grandson suffered severe head trauma and had trouble breathing on his own. She added that while doctors were trying to insert a tube to aid in his breathing, he died.
Meanwhile, a post-mortem examination conducted on the body of four-year-old Mohan revealed that he died as a result of a fractured skull and brain damage.
