Autopsies: Prison escapees, woman died of multiple gunshot injuries
Dead: Imran Ramsaywack
Dead: Imran Ramsaywack

THE woman and two prison escapees who were shot by police on Monday evening, died as result of multiple gunshot injuries, autopsies on their remains have confirmed. The dead prisoners were 28-year old Imran Ramsaywack and 26-year old Ryan Jones, who both had escaped from the Mazaruni Prison in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) on February 16, 2021. The woman was identified as 49-year-old Savita Rajkumar, called “Debbie”.
Imran and Ryan were identified by Principle Prison Officer Two, George Selman and the body of Savitri Rajkumar was identified by the father of her child, Kevin Williams, in the presence of the police. The bodies of Imran and Ryan were handed over to Guyana Prison Service officials for burial while the body of Savitri was handed over to Kevin Williams for cremation.

Dead: Ryan Jones

According to information from the Guyana Police Force, the deceased woman was a close acquaintance of Imran Ramsaywack.
Reports are that investigators found a cellular phone, from which they were able to retrieve valuable information.
In a recap of the incident, the police said on Monday that officers received information at around 20:40 hours that the escapees were hiding out in a desolate, swampy field surrounded by bushes. The officers, acting on this information, visited the location where they observed that there were three wooden shacks on the field, with two partly constructed. It is alleged that the police entered the first shack but found no one; however, they heard a ‘voice’ emanating from the third shack. But, before they could act, a male emerged and discharged one round at them before making good his escape.

Officers reportedly returned fire, and, in the aftermath of the exchange, they discovered the bodies of the woman, Jones and Ramsaywack, inside the shack. There were visible gunshot wounds on the bodies. Police said that the man, who allegedly fired at the police, escaped, but a sawn-off double-barrel shotgun was found at the scene.
Jones and Ramsaywack were among four prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison after cutting the bars from within their cell and breaking the padlock to the entrance gate. The other escapees are Kenrick Lyte, 44, who is facing a death sentence after being tried for murder and Samuel Gouveia, 26, who is also imprisoned for murder. Lyte’s last known address is Grant Goodintent, Lower Pomeroon River, while Gouveia’s is lot 13 Goedverwagting, East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Ramsaywack, also known as “Kevin Jones”, or “Coolie Boy” was sentenced to death in December 2019, for the murder of 45-year-old US-based Guyanese businesswoman, Samantha Benjamin, whose dismembered body was found at the Buxton Seawalls, East Coast of Demerara in 2015. He was a notorious gang member of Lot 7, Adelphi Village East Canje, Berbice. Ryan Jones, who was a resident of Bartica, was sentenced in July 2018 for the murder of Puranand “Andrew” Baljit. It was reported that Jones confessed to killing Baljit on June 9, 2016, at his Timehri, East Bank of Demerara home.
Jones was serving 28 years’ imprisonment and had attempted to escape from the Georgetown Prisons in 2020; he was among two of the masterminds behind the attempted prison-break. Jones’s father, Ralph Jones, was remanded to prison last month after he admitted to aiding the prisoners in their escape.

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