[1] After carrying out another massacre when they attacked the town of Bartica, Essequibo, and murdered 12 people, Rawlins and many of the other suspected gang members were later killed by Guyanese security forces.
[3] On the morning of Saturday, 26 January 2008, gunmen stormed into the small village of Lusignan, Guyana, and murdered eleven people, including five children and six adults.
Angry residents staged protests to vent their disappointment with the country's fractured national security and were also incensed when government officials visited Lusignan.
The former soldier, Rondell “Fineman” Rawlins, who claimed responsibility for the massacre,[5] was initially wanted for the April 2006 assassination of the Agriculture Minister, Satyadeow Sawh.
Rawlins telephoned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) a few days after her disappearance, and warned them to turn over his girlfriend to him or face the consequences.
[1] Two days after the Lusignan Massacre, the Joint Services launched Operation Restore Order, headed by the Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene.
During Operation Restore Order, the Joint Services cleared a section of the backlands of Buxton to prevent the criminals from escaping into the fields.
[citation needed] The Joint Services also recovered several AK-47 rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition for various weapons, and military fatigues, among other items, during raids in Buxton.
All the Guyanese political parties and religious bodies unreservedly condemned the Lusignan massacre and called for an end to the brutal crimes.
The President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, refused to hold consultations on the country's crime situation with the main opposition leader, Robert Corbin.
Following the second massacre in Bartica, the President did later meet with all national stakeholders, parliamentary political parties and religious bodies on Wednesday, 20 February 2008.
Police investigations found inconsistencies in Waple Morgan's report, and that she had changed her story of how she came to receive the phone call.