ONE hour after the Guyana Police Force issued a wanted bulletin for Rondell Bacchus, called “Killa”, for questioning into the murder of Ricardo Fagundes, called “Paper Shorts”, he turned himself in to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), at Eve Leary, on Tuesday.
Fagundes was killed by a hail of bullets from high-powered guns less than a month ago on downtown Main Street.
The popular gold dealer and biker was riddled with bullets on the evening of March 20, 2021, after he exited the Palm Court nightclub on the said street.
CCTV footage of the night of the incident showed Fagundes walking towards a black vehicle after exiting the nightclub, when two gunmen jumped out of a parked white Toyota ‘Fielder’ across the road and opened fire on him. In one frame, Fagundes was seen lying on the roadway as the two men stood over him and riddled his body with bullets, before escaping in the waiting vehicle.
The police are yet to determine whether the torched ‘Fielder Wagon’ that was discovered at Swan Village, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, is the same one used by the gunmen.
They have, however, confirmed that investigators of the Major Crimes Unit have acquired enhanced footage from one of the CCTV cameras in the vicinity of the crime scene; this will be used for evidential purposes.

Bacchus, 40, of ‘C’ Field Sophia, Georgetown, was sentenced to 16 years, eight months behind bars in 2019 on pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter after facing two trials for the July 24, 2008 murder of city businessman, Akbar Alli. On the two previous occasions he was tried, Bacchus had pleaded ‘not guilty’, and the jurors were unable to arrive at a verdict.
According to reports, on the day in question, Alli and his wife, Rameena Hydar Alli, were on Brickdam transacting some business when they were pounced upon by two armed men and relieved of a bag containing over $2 million in cash. Alli reportedly ran after the men, who were on a motorcycle, and was shot in the chest by the pillion rider. Alli’s wife, who had witnessed the entire incident, had identified Bacchus as the shooter, and so testified during both hearings.
While he’d initially denied guilt of the capital charge on which he was originally indicted, Bacchus would later accept, on the lesser count of manslaughter, that he did unlawfully shoot and kill Akbar Alli. On doing so, 11 years were deducted from Bacchus’ sentence for time spent in incarceration, which meant that he would have still had to serve five more years behind bars.
It is unclear when, and on what grounds, Bacchus was eventually set free.