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Friday, July 11, 2025

Suspect in attempted murder of prison officer dies

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14 days ago
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Police at the scene where a vehicle crashed on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, following the shooting of prison officer Govindra Balgobin along Orange Grove Road, Arouca, on June 20.

Police at the scene where a vehicle crashed on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, following the shooting of prison officer Govindra Balgobin along Orange Grove Road, Arouca, on June 20.

Days af­ter po­lice re­leased one of two sus­pects held in con­nec­tion with the at­tempt­ed mur­der of a prison of­fi­cer, the sec­ond sus­pect has died.

Po­lice and prison sources said Jessie Bel­fon, who was thrown out of the get­away car af­ter the shoot­ing, died ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Bel­fon is be­lieved to have been the shoot­er.

Po­lice are search­ing for a third sus­pect who was seen walk­ing away calm­ly af­ter the get­away car crashed.

On Tues­day, the first sus­pect was re­leased af­ter po­lice said there was in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to keep him in cus­tody. Po­lice were hop­ing to ques­tion Bel­fon, who had re­mained crit­i­cal­ly in­jured since his ad­mit­tance to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope last Fri­day night.

Prison of­fi­cer Govin­dra Bal­go­b­in, 38, was am­bushed and shot by gun­men who pulled along­side him along Or­ange Grove Road around 8.25 pm on June 20.

Prison of­fi­cials say Bal­go­b­in lost feel­ing in his legs and re­mains ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion as he awaits hip re­place­ment surgery be­cause of mul­ti­ple frac­tures. He was shot in the right side arm, tor­so, hip and up­per right side leg.


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