LESS than a year after Barrackpore farmer Kamal Richard Mohammed and his brother began cultivating a parcel of land near their home, he was shot and killed by a bicycle-riding gunman on Tuesday.

Mohammed, 34, and a father of two, was fatally shot in the head during the ambush by the gunman while on the agricultural plot off Manohar Trace on Rochard Road.

A police report stated that around midday, the shooter rode up to Mohammed, pointed a firearm at him, and fired one shot in his direction, then escaped in a westerly direction along a dirt track. Police officers responded and with the assistance of relatives, Mohammed was placed in a vehicle to be taken for medical treatment.