JERMAINE Simon of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, the main suspect in the shooting death of 19-year-old Ryan Sooklall of Providence, East Bank Demerara, has reportedly gone into hiding.Sources who spoke with this publication earlier in the week say that Guyana Police Force (GPF) ranks have been trying to locate Simon since the shooting incident, but their efforts have been without success. Police sources have disclosed that ranks have since visited Simon’s home and have found it abandoned.

It has also been reported that on Sunday, after Simon’s home had been shot at, he had approached the police with a report about the incident, but did not confirm to the police that he knew who had done the shooting or whom he regarded as a suspect. It was only after the 19-year-old Sooklall had been killed by gunshot sustained in the back in close proximity to his home on that Sunday evening that ranks were able to confirm that the dead teen might have been the suspect in the shooting up of Simon’s home.

Investigators suspect that Simon did not tell them who he suspected of shooting up his home, because he had already formulated an intention to retaliate, hence the shooting death of Ryan Sooklall.

This publication has been able to confirm that persons who were present when Sooklall was shot on Sunday night positively identified Jermaine Simon as the person who had shot Sooklall dead.

RECAP
Ryan Sooklall of 27 Providence East Bank Demerara was shot and killed while liming with friends in Providence, East Bank Demerara, just a short distance from where he lived, at approximately 19:00 hrs on Sunday evening.
The Guyana Chronicle was informed that Sooklall died from a single gunshot wound to the back, inflicted by a man who may have retaliated to an earlier shooting on Sunday morning.

This publication was told that Sooklall had reportedly visited the home of a man in Agricola, East Bank Demerara, and had discharged several shots thereat, causing the man and his family to panic.

Sooklall’s mother, Sherry Alleyne, explained on Sunday that she had last seen her son earlier on the day of his death, when he visited her at her other property, located in Region 3; and she said they had left there together after she had decided to visit the Splashmanis Fun Park with other relatives, something that Ryan was not willing to be part of, since, according to her, he had never liked going to the creek.

Alleyne said that while she was on her way from the creek, she received a call that her son was shot and that he was rushed to the Diamond Hospital. Upon her arrival there, she discovered that her son was dead and appeared to have sustained a gunshot wound to the back.

The woman said she had been told that a female from Agricola had threatened to kill her son, but she could not say when the threat had been made and if the woman is related to the man who is now being accused of shooting her son dead on Sunday evening.

Ryan Sooklall is survived by his mother, two sisters and his father, having lost his older brother to a road accident in 2010. Police investigations into his death are ongoing.