Ballistics tests show ‘Fine Man’ gang responsible for 47 murders

Sep 11, 2008 News

– weapon found on ‘Skinny’ linked to Lindo Creek killings

The weapons recovered from slain gunmen Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles have revealed that the gang was responsible for the murders of 47 persons

Ballistics examination conducted on the weapons recovered from slain gunmen Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles have revealed that the gang was responsible for the murders of 47 persons, including those who died in the massacres at Lusignan and Bartica.
In addition, the weapon found on Charles is linked to spent shells recovered from the Lindo Creek massacre of eight miners.
A press release from the Police Public Relations Office disclosed that the ballistics tests also confirmed that the weapon found in the possession of Rawlins was used in the killing of Agriculture Minister Satydeow Sawh and three other persons at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, on April 22, 2006.
Charles and Rawlins, who between them had a total of $60M bounty on their heads, were killed in a shootout with members of the Joint Services at Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Thursday August 28.
Two AK-47 assault rifles and a large quantity of ammunition were recovered from the dead gunmen.
According to the police, the AK-47 rifle with serial number 415233 found on Jermaine Charles called ‘Skinny’ was one of the rifles stolen from the Guyana Defence Force.
The police said that it was used in the October 10th, 2006 attack at Number Two Canal Polder in which an elderly woman was killed.
The weapon was also used to commit the murders of two men at a liquor bar at Agriculture Road, East Coast Demerara on December 16 last year.
The other weapon bearing serial number 9351441 which Rawlins had in his possession at the time of his death is linked to the murders committed on three MMC security guards at Two Brothers Gasolene Station at Eccles, East Bank Demerara on February 26, 2006.
Police said that the weapon was used the same night to kill an elderly couple, Hannah Cameron and David Brummell, at Lot 40 Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara. The couple’s bodies were partially burnt.
Also the said night the weapon was used at the scene of the murder of City Hall official Lauvern Scott at Lot 115 Third Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara.
Rawlins’ gun, the police said, was also used in an attack on a Professional Guard Service armoured van in which security guard Dexter Barry was shot dead on the Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara.
And in another attack on security personnel, the police disclosed that the weapon was used to kill MMC guards Warren Hutson and Rodwell Clarke at Sheribana Landing, Essequibo River on October 01 last year.
Although Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles was incarcerated when the Lindo Creek massacre occurred, investigators are convinced that the weapon found on him at the time of his death was given to him when he managed to reconnect with the gang following his escape from the Sparendaam Police Station lock-ups earlier this year.