Atop a treacherous hill sits a galvanised shack where three people–father, mother and son–were shot and killed on Friday.Timothy James, 32, his parents 50-year-old George James and 55-year-old mother Theresa Nelson were shot multiple times by gunmen around 5 pm.They lived on the hill off Pierre Felix Road.Not too far away, 17-year-old Andre Ross, who lived at Mercer Road, was shot repeatedly along Sierra Leone Road.
The trek to get to the murder scene of the trio was tedious as the hill was steep.Reports are that after Timothy was shot he tried to run away but gunmen continued shooting as he ran into a small, unfinished concrete house about two feet away from his parent's shack.Yesterday, families and friends tried to find a way to pick up the pieces amidst the pain.
A female relative, who did not give her name, walked back and forth with a mop and bucket to clean the blood-stained concrete where Timothy died.Asked if she was an offspring of the couple, she raised her head and said, "I am not the daughter. I am a relative."Two policemen chatted with a man close to the shack while another man was seen inside of the concrete house.
Each mattress in the two-room shack was bloodstained.Police said Nelson was shot several times and was found dead in her room. Her husband tried to escape from the shack but was shot repeatedly as he ran from the gunmen.
Call for justice
In the other incident, Derwin Phillip called for the police "to beef up allyuh investigation" for his son. Phillip was in the company of a group of men sitting close to his Mercer Road home, yesterday.He wanted justice and not revenge for Ross' murder because he had three daughters–ages two, four and 17 months–to care for.He said: "For 13 years of he life is me and he riding you know. Nobody don't know the pain I go through. I wasn't working then I get a job...it was odds and ends, but we make things meet."
Phillip said he saw Ross before he left for work and reminded him to pick up his sisters after school. But Ross was shot several times by gunmen along Sierra Leone Road.Ross last attended Servol and was seeking a job. Phillip said Ross was returning from a nearby home for aged with friends."They saw him walking and decided to go for him."But is a game...is a game. It is about who...is all about who want to feel that somebody owe them something."
Phillip works with the Forestry Division during the day and Waste Disposal Ltd on evenings.He said his only passport photo of his son was in wallet and he didn't have it. Phillip said: "It have the crew he will lime with but he don't be in nothing. That's my youth and I doh play wid him, you know, because that's my only boy."I trying to bring him up in the right way."I wouldn't say he was liming with the wrong company...what them really fighting for?...nothing!"
