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Police capture prime suspect in Courtney Crum-Ewing murder
Regan “Grey Boy” Rodrigues, the prime suspect in the death of Political Activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing, was captured on Good Friday at a house in Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, almost a month after the Director of
Public Prosecutions ordered that the case be reopened.
Rodrigues’s arrest follows two video recordings he made proclaiming his innocence in the execution-style killing of Crum-Ewing. In the recording, the 33-year-old murder suspect said that he would not surrender.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in a press released said that Rodriques was arrested around 16:15hrs on Friday. There was no resistance or confrontation during the arrest.
Rodrigues, who has been on the run since the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) requested that the case be reopened, said in the recording that he was freed for the murder last year and that the police wanted to frame him.
He said that he is convinced that there is a plot to have him go down for the murder. “They want I suffer for their crime,” he said.
He added, “I ain’t turning back mah self in. This country ain’t got justice. That is why people does turn bad. I leave them in the hands of God.”
Rodrigues failed to show up in court on April 3, last, when the case was called in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Magistrate Judy Latchman, for the taking of further evidence from police witnesses and to rule on the voluntariness of all of Rodrigues’s oral statements.
Courtney Crum-Ewing’s body was found on March 10, 2015, hours after he had been urging residents, with a bull-horn, to vote against the then ruling People’s Progressive Party.
One month later, Rodrigues was charged with the activist’s death after he was found with the gun that was later confirmed to be the weapon used to execute the political activist.
After the charges were read to him, he told the court, “I know that in this country once money passes to the police they do respond to you… I am an APNU stronghold.”
He further added, “I know (name of police officer) kill Crum-Ewing, because when they ask me to kill Crum-Ewing and Mark Benschop. I told them no, because I’m not no killer. I even went to the police to make a report on the matter and they never took my statement.”
Rodrigues was subsequently freed on September 14, 2016.
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