rhyging hid out with some friends for a while near his childhood home in st. catherine, but police were informed of his whereabouts. he managed to flee to lime cay, but again police were quickly tipped off. on 9 september 1948, they swooped on his hideout. he fought off police for an hour, but was killed when he attempted a break-out. he died, aged 24, of gunshot wounds on the beach at lime cay. he had been shot five times in the head, and several times all over his body. he may have been hiding at lime cay while waiting for a boat to take him to cuba. police at the time believed that he intended "to board a boat which would take him out of the island or to someplace on the south-western coast of the island."