Dad takes 7-year-old son and won't return; lures mom with false promise of returning boy, then kills her (Brooklyn, New York)

Dad RODNEY RAGBIRSINGH is an excellent example of a cunning and manipulative abuser. He takes the 7-year-old son away from the mother on false pretences, and then refuses to return him. He then promises the desperate mother that he would return the child. In fact, he had no intention of doing so. It was just a way to lure Mom out in the open so he could chase her down the street and shoot her dead. (Frankly, I don't take the accusations of "mutual" domestic violence too seriously. This kind of guy is obviously very skilled at manipulating appearances and twisting people to his own ends.)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/19/2009-07-19_moms_date_with_death.html

Lured by promise of seeing her child, young mother shot dead

BY Jake Pearson and Veronika Belenkaya DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Sunday, July 19th 2009, 4:00 AM

A 24-year-old college student was lured to a Brooklyn streetcorner with the promise of getting her son. Instead, Greyssel Gomez wound up dead - shot in the head after getting chased down Bedford Ave.

Gomez, of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ran past a string of auto body shops and at least two men did nothing to help.

Cops haven't made an arrest in the Tuesday night slaying, but a police source said investigators are looking for Rodney Ragbirsingh, the victim's ex-boyfriend and father of her 7-year-old son.

"He knew how much she loved that kid," said Gomez's sister, Sheyla Rosales, 21. "That was his leverage. ... He told her he would bring her son to her and she went. He didn't even bring the kid."

In the minutes before the young mother was killed, a witness saw Gomez walking with a man and pleading for help.

"She was talking to the guy and asked me if I knew Spanish," said a mechanic at one of the Bedford Ave. shops. "Then she asked if I could help her."

The mechanic, who asked not to be identified, told the Daily News he was racked with guilt. He was concerned, but he didn't intervene.

"Listen, mind your own business," a man with Gomez warned him. "That's my woman."

The mechanic walked back into the shop, forcing the Berkeley College student to seek help in another shop.

"She got a couple feet into the shop, and then I saw a young man step behind her," said a second witness, who has given his account to police. "He grabbed her by the back of the neck and she said, 'Leave me alone.'"

Seconds later, the man whipped out a handgun inside the East Flatbush auto repair shop.

"He shot her in the back of the head," the witness said. "She fell to the floor, and then he crouched over her and put three more shots into her head."

Gomez died instantly.

Police and relatives said the fatal gunshots were the final blows in a rocky 10-year relationship. She and Ragbirsingh broke up about a month ago.

Gomez was busted for beating him on June 24. Two days earlier, they were arrested for beating each other. On July 1, the 26-year-old ex-boyfriend was collared on a criminal mischief rap after police say he broke Gomez's cell phone.

Friends and relatives said Gomez studied fashion design and refused to accept help paying tuition.

"Her son was the world to her," said a friend, who asked that her name be withheld because she feared retribution. "She kept telling me, 'If I don't have anything else in this life, I just want my son and us two to be okay.'"

Days before her murder, Gomez got a restraining order against Ragbirsingh and got her son back from him, the victim's sister said.

On Monday, the ex-boyfriend asked Gomez to bring the boy to see his ailing great-grandmother at a hospital. Gomez reluctantly agreed and dropped off the boy, Rodney Jr. The next day, Ragbirsingh called her to meet on a Brooklyn streetcorner to pick up the boy, relatives said.
Now relatives are trying to figure out how to tell the boy his mother is dead.