Fifteen percent rise in murders

Apr 17, 2015 News

– 49 people slain for the year
Forty-nine people have been slain for the year, as statistics released by the Guyana Police Force indicated a steady rise in homicides and other serious crimes.
The Force’s Public Relations Department reported that there were 47 murders between January and April 13, 2015, in comparison to 41 for the similar period last year. This is a 15 percent increase in homicides.
There were two other murders up to yesterday, bringing the figure to 49.
Kaieteur News murder statistics show that eight females were slain for the year, with persons being charged in two of the killings. Two of them were minors.
Police also recorded a four percent increase in serious crime between January and April 13, 2015, in comparison to the same period in 2014.
Among the serious crimes police by the Force are murder, robbery under arms, robbery with violence, robbery with aggravation, larceny from the person, break and enter and larceny, burglary, rape and kidnapping.
But police said that for that same period, robbery under arms overall had decreased by 19 percent in comparison to the same period in 2014.
“The statistics indicate a 27 percent decrease in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms, and a percent decrease in armed robbery where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.
“The offence of rape has shown an increase of 62 percent up to April 13, 2015, in comparison to the same period in 2014.”
Police also said that there has been no arrest so far in the investigations into the murder of Quincy Bowman, 31, of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, whose body was found with a gunshot injury to the head in the vicinity of ‘Busta Bridge’, Festival City, on April 06, 2015.
“The police have questioned a number of persons from the community as the investigations continue.”
Kaieteur News had reported that a brother of the slain man was also questioned but was released.
Police said that investigations are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the death of Devi Ramadhar, 17, of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, whose body was found on the seawall at La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara, on April 11, 2015.
The cause of her death is so far undetermined. However, two men were arrested and questioned by the police and later released on bail.
Ballistics tests are being conducted on the spent shells and a warhead that were recovered as investigations into the murder of businesswoman Shevon Gordon, 45, of Block 22, Wismar.
Shevon Gordon was shot and killed during an armed robbery at her home on April 4, 2015.
So far the two suspects in this robbery/murder have managed to evade capture by the police. Efforts are continuing to be made to apprehend them.

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