One day af­ter his wife, Grace­lyn Ram­ber­an, and their son Randy Ram­per­sad were shot dead by as­sailants at their Ste Madeleine home, 58-year-old Vi­jai Ram­per­sad con­tin­ues to cling to life at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Ram­per­sad (Snr) un­der­went surgery af­ter he was shot in the head and re­mains ward­ed at the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU). His daugh­ter-in-law, Kim­ber­ly Sookoo-Ram­per­sad, 25, was al­so shot and is in a sta­ble con­di­tion at the same hos­pi­tal.

Both po­lice and rel­a­tives be­lieve Randy, 25, was the in­tend­ed tar­get. Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the po­lice re­vealed that Randy sold drugs and was re­cent­ly in­volved in an ar­gu­ment with peo­ple about the sale of drugs in the area.