The woman who was shot dead along with two Mazaruni Prison escapees on Monday night has been positively identified as Savita Rajkumar called ‘Debbie’.
On Tuesday, at about 10:00 hours, Shenike Williams, a 26-year-old housewife of Friendship Squatting area, East Bank Demerara (EBD) went to the Sparendaam Police Station and claimed that she received information that her mother was involved in a shooting incident with the police and that she came to identify her mother.
She was taken to Lyken Funeral Home, Georgetown where the female body was shown to her and she positively identified the deceased to be that of her mother Savita Rajkumar, of Better Hope (South) Squatting Dam, East Coast Demerara (ECD)
Also dead following a confrontation with police aback Better Hope, ECD are escapees Imran Ransaywack and Ryan Jones.
In a statement earlier on Tuesday morning, police said ranks acting on information that the Mazaruni Prison escapees were hiding out at a location in the Better Hope South backlands, went to the said area at about 8:40 hours where they observed an abandoned field in a bush and a swampy area.
The ranks observed that there were three wooden shacks on the field with two partly constructed ones. They began clearing the first shack but no one was seen.
According to the police, as the ranks were approaching the second shack, a voice was heard in the third shack and the ranks immediately called out indicating police were in the area.
A male immediately emerged and discharged a round at the Police and then ran, the police statement said. The Police ranks returned fire. Two males and a female were wounded and lay in the shack with gunshot injuries, whilst one male escaped.
A sawn-off double-barrel shotgun was found at the scene. Back in February Jones and Ramsaywack along with Kenrick Lyte and Samuel Gouveia escaped from the Mazaruni Prison. Jones had been sentenced to 28 years for manslaughter while Ramsaywack condemned for murder.
