'Fine-Man’s' bloody reign

‘Fine-Man’s’ bloody reign

Aug 29, 2008 News

The true tally will never be known, but it is believed that between them, Rondell Rawlins and Jermaine Charles, called ‘Skinny’, committed at least seven mass murders and slaughtered more than 55 people during a three-year reign of terror.
*In June, 2005, gunmen, reportedly led by Rawlins, invaded a house in Second Street, Agricola.
They dragged David Barrow, called ‘Gurple’, out of the house and hacked his head off.
Gurple’s 16-year-old girlfriend, Shamika Boyce, was shot as she lay on a bed, while a deportee, Paul Persaud, called ‘Yankee’, was shot under the front stairs.

Scenes from in and around the fugitives’ last hideout

‘Gurple’ is believed to have incurred ‘Fine Man’s’ wrath after leaking information to the police.
*On February 27, 2006, about 15 gunmen attacked a Mekdeci Mining Company (MMC) vehicle that had stopped at the Two Brothers Gas Station at Eccles.
Some of the men walked up to the vehicle and shot three security guards at point-blank range.
They then entered Agricola, where they shot and killed an elderly couple in their beds before attempting to torch their house. They also killed internet café manager Fenton Rudder and Assistant Town Clerk Lavern Garraway-Scott, whose home was torched. Taxi driver Cecil Duncan was mortally wounded by a stray bullet.
*The following month, Kevin Brown, a student of the Ascension Community High School, was blasted in the abdomen by five armed men who barged into his step-father’s Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara home after throwing a tear-smoke grenade into the building.
His mother, Shondell, called Tasha, 30, was shot in her upper left side, but survived.
*April 22, 2006: Police believe that Charles and other gunmen stormed the La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara home of Minister of Agriculture Satyadeow Sawh, killing Minister Sawh, two of his siblings and a security guard. Charles was subsequently charged in connection with the killings.
*August 8, 2006: Gunmen, including ‘Skinny’, stormed the Kaieteur News printing press at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
They then cold-bloodedly executed five Kaieteur News pressmen, after ordering them to lie facedown on the ground. The gunmen also killed two other people at Bagotstown.
*January 26, 2008: Several members of the Rondell Rawlins gang carried out a pre-dawn slaughter in the East Coast Demerara village of Lusignan.
When they left, eleven people, including five children, were dead. It is believed that Rawlins orchestrated the massacre in revenge for the disappearance of his pregnant girlfriend, Teneisha Morgan, who he believed had been kidnapped.
In telephone conversations to the police and the media, Rawlins threatened more mayhem if his girlfriend was not released.
*February 17, 2008: The same gang was blamed for a 60-minute attack in the heart of Bartica that left 12 people, including three policemen, dead and five others wounded.
*June, 2008: The burnt remains of eight gold miners are found at a mining camp at Lindo Creek, and again, police link the mass killings to ‘Fine Man’ and his gang.
*Rawlins and his gang have also been implicated in several other brutal crimes on the East Coast of Demerara, particularly in Buxton. The victims were said to be villagers who informed on the gang.
Other deaths linked to the gang include the murder of a police rank and a civilian who were found dead in a car on the Vigilance line-top.
Rawlins was also implicated in the January 2008 death of 24-year-old GDF rank Ivor Williams, who was slain while a police patrol happened to be passing through Buxton from Berbice.
In a telephone conversation with Kaieteur News, Rawlins had admitted to putting his hands on “them”.