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Friday, July 25, 2025

Man drowns after stoning over cell

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20140325

A 26-year-old man from San Fer­nan­do drowned un­der the King's Wharf jet­ty while seek­ing refuge from a fruit ven­dor who was ston­ing him.Para­medics did CPR on Mark Jack­man for 30 min­utes on Sun­day near a Cus­toms and Ex­cise of­fice on Old Train Line, San Fer­nan­do. But by the time he ar­rived at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, he was al­ready dead.Po­lice up to yes­ter­day were search­ing for the fruit ven­dor who went in­to hid­ing af­ter Jack­man dis­ap­peared un­der­wa­ter.

Jack­man of Pond Street, La Ro­maine, was seen ar­gu­ing with the sus­pect, then ran off along the jet­ty, with the sus­pect chas­ing and throw­ing stones.Af­ter be­ing hit sev­er­al times, Jack­man jumped in­to the wa­ter, hop­ing to es­cape the man. But the ven­dor con­tin­ued throw­ing stones and Jack­man had to seek refuge un­der the wa­ter.Af­ter he had been un­der the jet­ty fo rfive min­utes , a vil­lager dived in­to the wa­ter and pulled him out. The sus­pect left.An au­top­sy by Dr Hughvon des Vi­gnes con­firmed Jack­man died from drown­ing. How­ev­er, his sis­ter Camille Jack­man said he had a bruise on his neck and his knees were swollen.Camille said her broth­er sold the sus­pect a Dig­i­cel smart­phone for $350 ear­li­er this month. He had been paid $200 and met the sus­pect on Sun­day to col­lect the bal­ance.

"When I reached at the wharf there were two par­tic­u­lar peo­ple that told me that Mark sold the man (sus­pect) his phone. It was sold for $350 but he col­lect­ed $200 and he went to get the $150," she ex­plained. "From what I un­der­stood, the eye­wit­ness­es said they start­ed to ar­gue be­cause the man re­fused to give him the mon­ey for the phone.Ini­tial re­ports said Jack­man stole the phone and ran. But his moth­er, Sybil Jack­man, pro­duced the pack­age which came with the phone when he bought it. Jack­man has a twin sib­ling. Cpl David of the San Fer­nan­do CID is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.


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