An interview with the family of Guyana’s
most wanted
“I want this killing stop”
“Everybody come together and pray for the nation” – mother
“We are not looking for revenge” - sister


In the movies, to be the matriarch of a family of a nation’s most wanted man and the mother of a daughter gunned down, leaving behind three schoolaged children, is a role that would see many Oscar nominations.

But though she wishes life was different, that is the real life scenario for Mrs. Margaret Rawlins, of D’Andrade Street, Newtown, Georgetown.

Yesterday, one day after her daughter was fatally shot, Mrs Rawlins still believed that the news of her daughter’s death is a bad dream from which she will awake. She said, “Anytime something happens they does match the bullet to something…I want they match this one,” in reference to her daughter's killer(s).
As her family continues to live with the ever-growing harrowing stories of her son's, Rondell Rawlins’s, alleged involvement in some of the nation’s worst killings ever, she says, “I want this killing stop and everybody come together and pray for the nation. Let my daughter’s killing be the last, and let justice be served.”

The bounty on Rondell Rawlins's head, as fugitive for more than eight years, is $50M.
As Mrs Rawlins sat in her chair surrounded by three relatives, the ever prayerful woman agreed to an interview, mere hours after she had publicly proclaimed that she would never speak to Kaieteur News.

Minutes after her daughter, Marcyn King, was shot dead in the streets, Mrs Rawlins had refused to speak with or aid Kaieteur News in any way. She claimed that the newspaper had embarrassed her in an earlier report.

She later met with publisher Glenn Lall and softened when she was convinced that the report was accurate.

“Like I can’t believe that she gone. She was a very loving, quiet, and peaceful child. She has no problem with nobody,” Mrs Rawlins said of her daughter Marcyn, who was fatally shot by a yet unknown gunman while she was heading home on Monday night.

The mother fondly recalled that before her daughter was killed she was not too much of a lover of friends, that she preferred to go to work, go home and either sit on the veranda or lie in bed with a book after tending to her children.

Margaret could not say whether her son, being condemned as a cold-blooded killer, had anything to do with her daughter’s demise, but was adamant that her daughter was ‘a peaceful, innocent soul’ who had no problem with anyone to the point of them wanting to see her dead.

“God knows, and He sees everything and He will be the judge in the end. He and the killer know what transpired,” she said in response to the question of any possible reason why her daughter was killed.

Grappling with the many stories that include her fugitive son, Mrs Rawlins held back on judging, saying that she believes that her daughter’s killing was a direct attack on her family, and it has broken her heart.
However, she says that the killing has drawn the family closer together.

When asked if the family would seek protection from the local authorities, given the death of her daughter, she quietly questioned the level of protection the authorities would provide, aside from talk.

She said that, following the killing, the Police did take statements but did not say anything about the investigations.

As I sought answers to the many unanswered questions, the phone rang, and like she had done countless times prior, the mother relayed the details of how good her daughter was and how undeserving she was of meeting the end that she met.

Amidst gasps and a call for Tenisha, her younger daughter, to bring the methylated spirits, the woman slumped in the chair with her eyes closed. Her soft words were, “God, mah head hurting me bad.”

When Tenisha brought the methylated spirits, she sopped her mother’s forehead.
A little sister’s take on Guyana’s most wanted man
…“We are not looking for revenge”

I took the liberty to ask Tenisha, Rondell Rawlins’s youngest sister, what she wants to see done, being the sister of Guyana’s most wanted man. With some hesitation and careful thought, she said: “I want to see this killing thing stop and everybody come together and pray for the nation.”

She says that she has not been in contact with him, but fondly remembers that her brother is a very spiritual person. “Whatever he believes, he believes in strongly.” The little sister, who remembers Rondell as a caring big brother, opined. She does not think he’s responsible for the killings for which he is being blamed.
She, however, said that even if they say Lusignan, how did he reach to Bartica? What happened to all the patrols about the place? How he knows about Bartica and he isn’t from Bartica? How he reach there?”
She noted that in the Bartica scenario at least one witness relayed that the gunmen did not speak English.
Aged 18, she said, “The authorities in Guyana don’t investigate. All they do is suspect, and that’s why they don’t even know who kill anybody for sure. I wish if we could go back to 2007. At least 2007 was better …You don’t even know if you gon see tomorrow the way things going in Guyana.”

Speaking for her brother, she said that she does not believe that one person is behind the killings. She added that the Police need to do more investigations and find who is behind all the killings.
She was emphatic that, “We (the family) are not looking for revenge,” referring to her sister’s death.
What does a sister have to say to her brother (Guyana’s most wanted man)?

“I want him to know that his family loves him dearly, and if whatever they are saying (him being a killer) is true, I want him to think about the ones that he is putting in danger because, most obviously, if people can’t get to you, they will get to your family.”

Calling for justice to be served in all the cases and killings, she said her family residing in Newtown is innocent of any wrongdoing.

“I never murder, or nobody in this household (D’Andrade Street) never put a gun to anybody or even wish them dead. We do not rejoice when people die.”

She said that the current unfolding in her family is a lot to carry around as a little sister, but she says her belief is that God is her family’s only hope. She says that her sister’s killing is a total surprise and shock.
“The family has not been in receipt of threats of any kind.”

She wants the Police to take action and do a through investigation of all killings in Guyana, including that of her sister. “We don’t want people to be gunned down; we want them to be brought in and questioned based on the evidence against them. That is the type of action I want.”

When asked if there could be any circumstance under which her brother would speak with any one in authority to clear the air, she said that her family believes that the Police will not give any major attention to the family matters.

Who is Rondel Rawlins?

Rondell Rawlins is remembered by his family as a footballer who also loved playing cricket before he became wanted. His mother said, “He loves those games.”

She remembers him as a peaceful and kind-hearted person who used to cook and clean house. Then, at age 21, he left her home to be on his own. She blames the association of the graduates of Houston Community High School for influencing her son’s life and choices.

At school, she said, he had a love for carpentry, and his sister pointed to a chair in the house that is among his handiwork.

Speaking to all mothers, Mrs Rawlins said: “You make your children; you raise them up the best way you would like them grow. But as a child gets older, you are not responsible for them and their thinking anymore.”

She said that some would like to judge parents for their children’s wrongdoing, but when a child gets older and he leaves home you are not responsible for that child anymore… “You can’t blame a mother for what her child does as an adult.”

She said, too, that many times parents are in the dark about their children’s activities. People outside know more about them than you at home.”

Our interview ended. Minutes later, as I visited a neighbour, several relatives arrived at the Rawlins home, and upon hearing the news of the demise of Marcyn King, weeping and wailing pierced the quiet that had enveloped Newtown, where I once lived.

I walked out of the street and all I saw were shadows behind blinds. Even I did not know that I lived a house away from Mrs Rawlins, whom I occasionally greeted as I went about my daily business. I even recalled exchanging greetings with the now dead Marcyn King on several occasions.

You have to feel for Mrs Rawlins. Seems like a good person who did the best to raise her son.

Police should have known that people will go after the family if they can't find him and offer protection.
It's sad to even wonder if he feels this pain and wonder if the victims family felt the same way.

It is indeed tragic. Can feel a mother's pain, and a sister trying not to believe that a brother, as she remembers him, is responsible for all the devastation in Lusignan, and even indirectly the death of her sister.

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Originally posted by FC:
You have to feel for Mrs Rawlins. Seems like a good person who did the best to raise her son.

Don't over sympathize with the mothers of killers. This man learnt his evilness from someone, his mother failed to instill goodness in his soul. Who know, she might be collecting the spoils from his deadly rampage. Word around the streets is that Fineman executed his own sister because she squealed to the police, that is why the rest of the family ready to forgive and move on. They looking out for their own skins, they afraid of their own son and brother.

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:

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Originally posted by FC:
You have to feel for Mrs Rawlins. Seems like a good person who did the best to raise her son.

Don't over sympathize with the mothers of killers. This man learnt his evilness from someone, his mother failed to instill goodness in his soul. Who know, she might be collecting the spoils from his deadly rampage. Word around the streets is that Fineman executed his own sister because she squealed to the police, that is why the rest of the family ready to forgive and move on. They looking out for their own skins, they afraid of their own son and brother.

BGurd, don't be a fool. Here you come with you self righteous self to pass judgement on this woman. She is right you make your children and try to raise them in the right way but you don't make their minds...
Word in the street my a55...word from Jagdeo was that he knew who the killer of Sash Sawh was...he still can't show nor tell...
Word in the street is that the bullets from Lusignan match the bullets in almost every shooting that occurred in GY lately...still nothing ain't cooking.
Yall like bump your gums too flapping much...go and sit your a55 in a corner and stop spreading rumours..yuh already on another thread supposing that the murder was carried out by an indian front...suppose suppose suppose yuh flappin nose was a doorpost...don't mek me wild up in hey.

This family is torn inside out and I believe that they truly will like to see all the killing stop.
The mother and younger sister seems very sincere. I am sorry for the family and even more sorry for all of the families that lost loved ones from all this killing.

Sincerity comes after one of their own "paid the PRICE?

This sort of appeal was long overdue.

The entire society is under stress.

Maha Shiv Raati Day at Cove and John at the Ashram....after 10:00 PM, the Crowd was missing.....Decade of religious practices were heavily curtailed

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Originally posted by amral:
This family is torn inside out and I believe that they truly will like to see all the killing stop.
The mother and younger sister seems very sincere. I am sorry for the family and even more sorry for all of the families that lost loved ones from all this killing.

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“I want this killing stop and everybody come together and pray for the nation. Let my daughter’s killing be the last, and let justice be served.”

Well Dave she did say
“I want this killing stop and everybody come together and pray for the nation. Let my daughter’s killing be the last, and let justice be served.”

Look I believe this woman is being sincere. No one can condone what her son has done but in the end it is a tragedy all around and more lives are going to be lost if the inept police do not capture the killers.

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Don't over sympathize with the mothers of killers. This man learnt his evilness from someone, his mother failed to instill goodness in his soul.

How can you say that Fineman learned evil from his mother?I am sure you have heard over and over again of situations where children just go down the wrong path regardless of how "good" the parents are, or good a job they did.

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They looking out for their own skins, they afraid of their own son and brother.

It may well be that they are afraid of him, hence the unwillingness to speak directly to him through the media and appeal to him to stop the killing. But again no one wants to believe that their own is capable of the things he is being accused of.

The One and FC, both of you have the luxury of being forgiving, I doubt that the families of those slaughtered have the same conviction.

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I am sure you have heard over and over again of situations where children just go down the wrong path regardless of how "good" the parents are, or good a job they did

I am sure that the above was written by a parent who failed to raise their child properly. If a child is brought up with religon and good morals then it is highly unlikely that they will go down the wrong path. You are I don't know exactly how and where Fineman got his morals. But I can safely say that his mother failed in her job as a parent. Can you deny this.

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
I don't know exactly how and where Fineman got his morals. But I can safely say that his mother failed in her job as a parent.

So what's your excuse?

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
The One and FC, both of you have the luxury of being forgiving, I doubt that the families of those slaughtered have the same conviction.

It is because we were raised without hate and prejudice blinding us that we are able to open our minds to other possibilities. You cannot be sure that all the families are calling for the blood of those responsible for the killings. It may be a novelty to you, but victims/families of victims of crimes have been know to forgive their attackers/abusers/murderers.

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I am sure you have heard over and over again of situations where children just go down the wrong path regardless of how "good" the parents are, or good a job they did

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I am sure that the above was written by a parent who failed to raise their child properly. If a child is brought up with religon and good morals then it is highly unlikely that they will go down the wrong path.

Obviously you have no idea whom you are addressing here so I suggest you keep the personal speculations to yourself.I am hoping that somewhere in your life you might have heard about nature vs nurture?

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The One, you are the one I am addressing, a person who neglected to register under their real name so they can have the luxury of making sympathetic statements about family of killers.
You too are speculating so get off your white horse.

I doubt that any amount of "proper raising" would illicit the amount of sympathy I see you and others having for the relatives of this killer.

Like I said, Karma is a bytch.

If fine man is innocent why is he hiding from the Police and why his mother and sister don't call on him to give himself up?

All they can tell the reporter that fine man is a good man. They have to do better that that.

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
The One, you are the one I am addressing, a person who neglected to register under their real name so they can have the luxury of making sympathetic statements about family of killers.
You too are speculating so get off your white horse.

I doubt that any amount of "proper raising" would illicit the amount of sympathy I see you and others having for the relatives of this killer.

Like I said, Karma is a bytch.

oNly in your perverted racist world is being sympathetic a luxury. There is no evidence that this woman encouraged the evil ways in her son. There is no evidence that she kept in contact with him during his killing spree.

Everyone is responsible for their own sins and in every religion, the call to be judged is on an individual basis. Your appeal to Karma as is often your appeal to any lines of authority is always flawed. This is so because you judge essentially on racist bias. God, in any conception, cares not about human racist categories but about the human heart.

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Originally posted by Ken:
If fine man is innocent why is he hiding from the Police and why his mother and sister don't call on him to give himself up?

All they can tell the reporter that fine man is a good man. They have to do better that that.

bushman, where in the world is anyone asserting that fineman is a good man?

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
The One, you are the one I am addressing, a person who neglected to register under their real name so they can have the luxury of making sympathetic statements about family of killers.
You too are speculating so get off your white horse.

I doubt that any amount of "proper raising" would illicit the amount of sympathy I see you and others having for the relatives of this killer.

Like I said, Karma is a bytch.

oNly in your perverted racist world is being sympathetic a luxury. There is no evidence that this woman encouraged the evil ways in her son. There is no evidence that she kept in contact with him during his killing spree.

Everyone is responsible for their own sins and in every religion, the call to be judged is on an individual basis. Your appeal to Karma as is often your appeal to any lines of authority is always flawed. This is so because you judge essentially on racist bias. God, in any conception, cares not about human racist categories but about the human heart.

Thank you D2. I just don't have the energy to deal with these losers anymore.

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Ken:
If fine man is innocent why is he hiding from the Police and why his mother and sister don't call on him to give himself up?

All they can tell the reporter that fine man is a good man. They have to do better that that.

bushman, where in the world is anyone asserting that fineman is a good man?

Mr. A/HOLE LIKE YOU CANNOT READ AND COMPREHEND.

She says that she has not been in contact with him, but fondly remembers that her brother is a very spiritual person. “Whatever he believes, he believes in strongly.” The little sister, who remembers Rondell as a caring big brother, opined. She does not think he’s responsible for the killings for which he is being blamed.

Does that mean he is a bad person Mr. BUCKMAN