Suspected murder accused gunned down

downloadGeorgetown: After being accused of killing Ryan Sooklall of Providence, East Bank Demerara last March, the suspect assailant, Jermaine Simon was gunned down Tuesday.

According to Police Detectives in ‘A’ Division are investigating an alleged murder committed on Jermaine  Simon, 24yrs, of 46 Norton Street Bagotstown E.B.D, which occurred about 20:30hrs on Tuesday November 10,2015 at Norton Street, Bagotstown

 Enquires disclosed that Jermaine  Simon was riding a bicycle and as he was passing in front of the suspect’s house, the suspect suddenly rushed out of his yard and discharged a round at the victim with a handgun, hitting him to his forehead.       

Jermaine Simon was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he died whilst receiving treatment. The suspect not yet arrested.  Investigations are continuing.

Simon of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, was the main suspect in the shooting death of 19-year-old Ryan Sooklall of Providence, East Bank Demerara.  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 last March.

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 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.