Businessman, Chandrapaul Persaud, shot dead in Non Pariel
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Dreaded
Troy Dick dead
-- fellow bandit also killed
Another
bandit,
Colin Jacobs, also known as Paul
Lynch, was also killed during
the
shootout in Hardina
Street, Wortmanville. Dick
was one of the five dangerous criminals who shot their way out of the
Georgetown Prisons on February 23, 2002, and spread a long reign of
criminal terror in Georgetown and along the East Coast Demerara before
four of them were shot or found dead in separate incidents. Dick
was also wanted in connection with the assassination of Agriculture
Minister Mr Satyadeow `Sash’ Sawh who was gunned down in his house on
the night of April 22, 2006.
According
to Police, Ashraf Alli, 33, of Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara, was
attacked by two men, one of whom had a handgun, at Regent and Wellington
Streets, Georgetown. Police
said the man with the firearm discharged several rounds, held up Alli
and took away the money after a scuffle. The
two robbers ran south along Wellington Street and as they fled, the man
with the firearm discharged several shots in Alli’s direction. No one
was injured but the windscreen of a vehicle parked in the vicinity was
damaged. The two men subsequently joined a motor vehicle, Police said. Police patrol ranks responded promptly to the report and acting on information received, confronted three men who had left a motor car in Hardina Street. Two of the men were at the time attempting to hijack a motor car. Police
said there was a chase and an exchange of gunfire which resulted in
Lynch, 34, of Globe Yard, Waterloo Street, Georgetown being fatally
wounded. Police said an unlicensed .38 snub nose revolver along with
matching live rounds and spent shells were found at the scene.
Police
said an AK-47 rifle with the butt sawn off, along with four magazines
and a quantity of matching live rounds were found on him. During
the exchange of gunfire, Police reported, Kwame Patterson, 33, of
Prospect, East Bank Demerara, who was in the motor vehicle, was shot in
his right knee. He was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital
Corporation and sent away. A
third person involved in the robbery escaped, Police said. Residents
in the area said the three men tried to flee from the pursuing cops by
jumping the fence of a yard. However, they had no chance of escaping
since the Police had already surrounded the place. According
to residents, several shots rang out in the area before the Police were
seen dragging the men out of the yard. There was a trail of blood
leading from the yard to the road. The
robbery and killing of the two bandits yesterday followed the killing
Tuesday of Regent Street store owner
Shirool
Persaud. She was shot dead
just before noon when two men pretending to be customers attacked her in
the cashier’s cage and fled with a bag containing money. Dick
was also wanted in relation to an indictment for murder pending before
the High Court.
They
shot the guard, Roxanne Winfield, who was on the inner gate, in the
head, after she had refused to hand over her keys, throwing them into a
corner instead, and then stabbed to death 21-year old prison officer,
Troy Williams, who was on the outer gate and had rushed to her aid. Winfield
was permanently disfigured in the men’s successful freedom bid. The
escapees hijacked two cars which they later abandoned. Four of them were
killed at varying times during their reign of terror. The
first to die was Douglas whose body was found in an abandoned car on the
East Bank Demerara Highway. Dale
Moore and Mark Fraser died in the wake of the
kidnapping and escape of
businessman Bramanand Nandalall.
On
June 6, 2003, Shawn Browne and two others were killed in a shootout with
a joint force of
Police and Army ranks
when they raided his
Prashad
Nagar, Georgetown hideout. The police also retrieved weapons, including
an AK-47 assault rifle, from the house in which the men were hiding. Douglas,
Moore, Browne, and Dick had been on remand on charges of murder and/or
armed robbery, while Fraser, had been serving a sentence of 25 years for
robbery. Following
their escape, Police were offering a $10M reward for information leading
to their recapture and said that they were involved in the killing of
well-known crime fighter, Police Superintendent Leon Fraser on April 2
when he and other cops closed in on a car partly hidden in a clump of
bushes at Yarrowkabra on the Linden/Soesdyke highway. Fraser was shot in
the head. Dick
was also one of ten men wanted in connection with the murder of Sawh who
was killed in his home on the night of April 22, 2006. The
Police have announced a $2M reward each would be offered for information
leading to the capture of the 10 men. Most
of the wanted are members of a feared gang with links in Agricola, East
Bank Demerara, including its reputed leader Rondell Rawlins, widely
known as `Fineman’, of Titus Street, Agricola and Buxton. Others
wanted for questioning include David Zammett called David Leander or
“Bullet” of Buxton; Jermaine Charles called “Skinny” of Agricola
and Richard Daniels called “Chucky” of Agricola and Orlando Andrews
called “Biscuit” and “Jeffrey”. The
others who Police said are known only by their call names are “Cash”
of Buxton; “Not Nice” of Buxton; “Sonny” of Agricola and “John
Kirby” of Agricola. The
gruesome
gunning down of Minister Sawh and
two of his siblings - brother
Rajpat Rai, sister Pulmatie Persaud - both Canadian citizens, along with
security guard Curtis Robertson at his 61-62 Earl’s Court, La Bonne
Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, home, was reportedly carried out
by armed men who Police said were masked and wore camouflage clothing. The
armed men left the centre of their bloody rampage on foot, just as they
came. Robertson,
37, father of seven children, ages one to 13, was on duty at the
minister’s residence when he was shot and killed. He
lived at Lot 59 Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, and had been
employed by Strategic Action Security for the past 10 years. Rawlins,
Andrews, Zammett, Charles, Daniels, “John Kirby” are also wanted in
connection with other murders and other serious offences. The
Agricola gang of Rawlins, Daniels called `Chucky’ and Charles called
`Skinny’ has been linked to the 15-member gang involved in the
Agricola, East Bank Demerara bloodbath on the night of February 26 when
eight people were massacred. Killed
were MMC security guards: Sheldon Smartt, Cedric Dummet and Loris Semple
as well as pensioners, Hannah Cameron and David Brummel. Assistant Town
Clerk Lavern Scott-Garraway and Cecil Duncan were all shot to death. One
of the alleged gang members, Devon Cambridge, was reportedly picked up
on the McDoom Public Road and later executed on Hadfield Street, D'Urban
Backlands, Georgetown. He
was found with his hands tied behind his back and with several bullet
wounds about his body. According to sources, his killing was at the
hands of gunmen, allegedly working for a rival killing squad, and was a
tit-for-tat warfare between the two groups. In
addition , `Chucky’, `Skinny’ and John Kirby were named by witnesses
in the killing of 12-year-old Kevin Brown called “Shawnie” of Lot 63
Back Street, McDoom. day,
September 30, 2006 |
