By STACY MOORE Thursday, October 16 2008

“I LOVE YOU...I am going!” Those were final words Allan Seepersad whispered to his daughter Sally, moments before he died on the ground of his Penal home after being shot by bandits on Tuesday.

Sally Seepersad made this revelation at home as she spoke about the final moments with her 43- year-old father after he was shot while fighting with the two bandits at his Penal home yesterday.

And while police were continuing the manhunt for the killers, ten-year-old Mohanie “Nandi” Chaitram was busy writing a letter to her dead uncle, in which she bade him goodbye.

Chaitram’s letter stated: “Uncle Allan was a loving and kind man. uncle Allan was never hoggish to people and if someone came and asked him for money, he always gave what he had. He was like a father to me, Sally and Mike. And it is time to say goodbye.”

On Tuesday morning, Seepersad managed to fight off the bandits, stabbing one of them while his family hid in a room. For protecting his family, he paid with his life.

‘Mummy had to rub vicks under my eyes, I tried to forget what happened but I miss my uncle,” Chaitram said yesterday.

Sally Seepersad said she and her father were very close. “It was always daddy this and daddy that, now I feel like he has left a stain on my heart...He not here anymore,” Seepersad said as tears welled from her eyes.

Villager Arnold Rampersad said most people only had good things to say about Seepersad.

“Is only the good people nowadays getting killed, not the evil ones,” Rampersad said.

An autopsy revealed Seepersad died as a result of gunshot wounds to the lower and upper chest.

Family members said Saturday was the tentative date for the funeral as they were still awaiting relatives from overseas to fly in.