Seven die in shoot-outs
Killed in a confrontation with police in a house in Lamaha Gardens.
By Kim Lucas and Oscar P. Clarke
Two Mash Day escapees were among seven men killed in a series of bloody shoot-outs early yesterday morning in the city and on the East Coast of Demerara
Among the dead are Dale Moore – seen as one of the leaders of the February 23 jail-break quintet – another escapee, Mark Fraser, Lancelot Roach and businessman Frank Solomon. The other men have not been identified. The police said that Moore and another man died in a confrontation with them in Lamaha Gardens while Roach and Fraser were killed by unknown gunmen on the East Coast. The escapees are believed to have been key players in the crime wave that has swept the country since late February. A third escapee Andrew was found dead in a car following a shoot-out earlier this year.
Moore and another man were shot dead by police only a few doors away from the Lamaha Gardens residence of Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj. They had reportedly been holed up with a substantial cache of arms in a nearby house.
