TRINIDAD – Express
A SANGRE Grande mother and school teacher was shot dead on Monday by a man who then attempted suicide.
Margaret Ragoobar Guevarra, 42, died in the family home shortly before 8 a.m.
Her suspected killer, a 44-year-old man, has been taken to hospital.
Police said he shot himself in the head.
Shortly before 8 a.m., the woman’s 16-year-old daughter heard her mother’s screams at the house at Jarasingh Village.
She went to investigate and found a trail of blood in the house.
She screamed and sought help from nearby residents who contacted Sangre Grande police.
Police believe the killing was domestic related. Ragoobar-Gueverra was the mother of five.
Crime Scene and homicide investigators are currently at the scene.
The killing took the homicide toll for the year to 91.
Guevarra, who was a teacher at the St Francis RC Primary School in Sangre Grande, is the seventh woman killed for the year.