– suspect nabbed en route to SurinameA 40-year-old man shot his 20-year-old ex-lover dead, after cornering her outside the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet in Water Street on Old Year’s Night.Dead: Carlissa MatthewsCarlissa Matthews, of Lot 2284 North Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, was shot to the back of the head shortly before midnight on Tuesday. She died at around 02:15 hrs on Wednesday (New Year’s Day) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).The suspect, identified as Jermaine Maynard, of Leopold and Cross Streets, Werk-en-Rust,cheap jerseys cc, fled the scene, but was captured at Springlands at around 08:00hrs yesterday, while attempting to escape to Suriname.He was reportedly nabbed at the ‘back track’ crossing,Adam Shaheen Jersey, and was about to board a boat when he was held.Kaieteur News understands that acting on information, ranks staked out the area, and made a move when they were certain that the fugitive was within their grasp.Carol Kennedy, the victim’s mother, said that her daughter,Andrew Franks Dolphins Jersey, who has a five-year-old son, suffered repeated physical abuse at the hands of the suspect,Cheap Stitched NFL Jerseys, during their approximately two-year relationship. She alleged that Matthews had made repeated complaints to the police, but never allowed police to press charges.Ms. Kennedy said that her daughter eventually severed the relationship about six months ago, but the suspect continued to harass her.Media reports also show that Matthews was herself charged with grievous bodily harm committed against Maynard on October 26, 2013. But the case was dismissed after Maynard declined to give evidence against her.Carol Kennedy, a Stabroek Market vendor, told Kaieteur News that she, her daughter, and others were hanging out near the KFC outlet on Old Year’s Night when the suspect, who was also in the area, called her daughter.Ms. Kennedy alleged that the ex-boyfriend had been calling her daughter frequently on her cell phone.“He was constantly ringing her cell phone, and she (eventually) decide to go to him to keep him quiet.”Ms. Kennedy said that she was backing the suspect and her daughter, who were chatting nearby and never heard the gunshot that killed her daughter.“Then I hear a little boy say ‘look that man got a gun and he shoot that girl.’”On turning, Kennedy saw her daughter lying motionless on the ground, with the ex-boyfriend standing nearby. She alleged that the suspect stood over her daughter and attempted to shoot again.“He go over and try to shoot fire at her, but the gun just clicked.”According to Kennedy, Matthews’s ex-boyfriend then fled into nearby Longden Street. The mother, accompanied by one of her sons,Cheap NFL Authentic Jerseys, pursued the suspect to America Street, but the fleeing suspect held a cyclist at gunpoint and escaped on the man’s bicycle.Ms. Kennedy’s fianc? took the badly-injured woman to the GPHC. There, a doctor ordered a CT scan, but then pronounced the victim brain-dead. The mother said that she passed away at around 02:15 hrs.Ms. Kennedy recounted that she accompanied police to the suspect’s Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust home, but found no trace of the alleged killer.Kaieteur News managed to contact the suspect, Jermaine Maynard, on his cell phone at around 20:00 hrs on New Year’s Day. During a brief conversation, the alleged killer blamed the ex-girlfriend and her mother for the rift in the relationship.Asked why her daughter put up with the abuse for so long, Ms. Kennedy said that the suspect would “beg pardon and ask for a chance.”“Everybody in the family would lean with him and give him a chance.”However, Matthews eventually became ‘fed up’ and left her abusive boyfriend, who continued to try to rekindle the friendship.“She go to the interior and he follow her…he refuse to give up,” the dead woman’s mother reflected.