Reports said it happened at Minty’s Bar, on School Road, Success, East Coast Demerara, where he left relatives inside and went outside to answer his cellular phone.

He rejoined the group, put the phone in a pocket, then sat down and fired his licensed gun to his head, others in his company reported.

His aunt, Evelyn Raghubar said after the shooting, she saw Lallman, an employee of A & N Sarjoo Cambio in America Street, Georgetown, in a sitting position on a chair, with the gun on his stomach.

She said she last saw him about 18:30 h that day at Alexander Village, another part of the city, where he was in a jovial mood and they spoke briefly.

Raghubar said he promised her to go home early that night and she was shocked at the tragic news she received at 21:10 h.

Jasmattie Lallman, a sister, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday she was informed by telephone about 20:30 h.

She said her brother had left home for his workplace, as usual that morning and seemed to be in good spirits. She, too, was surprised at his death.

She linked the alleged suicide to frequent telephone calls, sometimes at early morning, from a woman with whom Lallman was intimately involved.

She said their late mother was strongly opposed to the relationship and he broke it off before she went abroad.

But, on her return to Guyana, the mother took ill after she found out the intimacy had resumed and she died three weeks later.

Jasmattie said their mother’s death, about a year and a half ago, devastated Lallman and he again severed ties with the woman.

However, she persisted in telephoning him and his sister said he was tormented by the regularity of the calls.

Police who visited the scene of the shooting took possession of Lallman’s gold jewellery, cell phone and gun for their continuing investigations.

He is survived by five sisters and two brothers.

Thursday, May 19, 2005