the following day he killed a woman named lucille tibby young, the girlfriend of eric goldson, the man he believed had informed on him. he broke into her room and demanded she take him to goldson. when she said she did not know where goldson was, he shot her in the chest, killing her instantly. he then also shot the two other women who were in the room at the time, estella brown and iris bailey, wounding them. immediately after this the police offered a £200 reward for the capture of rhyging, dead or alive. rhyging responded by writing an open letter to detective sergeant scott, one of the detectives leading the search for him. the letter, which was published in the "jamaica times", stated,