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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Welder gunned down on his way to collect debt

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In­stead of start­ing his new job to­day, Pleas­antville welder Keron Brown's body will in­stead be at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James for an au­top­sy.Brown, 21, was shot more than ten times in Clax­ton Bay on Sat­ur­day night af­ter he left home to col­lect mon­ey from some­one who was ow­ing him.

"He was a good one. My son was on the road to suc­cess and some­body stop my child fu­ture," his moth­er Sher­ryann Brown said at her Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville home yes­ter­day.She said she be­lieved Brown, the fourth of her five chil­dren, was set up.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 10 pm Brown and his friend were among three oc­cu­pants in a sil­ver car trav­el­ling along Ocean Dri­ve.Po­lice said the car stopped and Brown and his friend got out to uri­nate when they heard gun­shots. Brown's friend said he hid in the bush­es as the dri­ver of the car sped off. When he came back out he found Brown shot sev­er­al times. Brown lat­er died on the scene.

Po­lice re­cov­ered 21 spent shells and one live round of 9 am­mu­ni­tion.Sher­ryann Brown yes­ter­day called for jus­tice in her son's death. "I need some sat­is­fac­tion for my son," she said.She said Brown left home short­ly af­ter 8 pm and trav­elled to St Mar­garet's where he met his friend and they were lim­ing at a bar.

The moth­er did not know how much mon­ey her son went to col­lect or whether he col­lect­ed it."I went on the (mur­der) scene. I saw my son. I could not be­lieve what I see."She said her son nev­er com­plained to her about re­ceiv­ing any threats, but she found it "fishy" he was shot so many times.

"That is why I say it was a set-up, be­cause he went to col­lect mon­ey."The moth­er re­called that about four years ago when her son was still at­tend­ing sec­ondary school, he robbed an­oth­er teenag­er of his cell­phone. She said his mat­ter went be­fore then High Court judge An­tho­ny Car­mona, now Pres­i­dent, in a pro­gramme to help young of­fend­ers.

Car­mona gave him a chance and the mat­ter was dis­missed.The moth­er said Brown turned his life around and pur­sued sev­er­al weld­ing cours­es, re­ceived sev­er­al cer­tifi­cates and be­came a qual­i­fied A-Class welder.

"He was sup­posed to start work­ing at a shut­down in Point Lisas to­mor­row morn­ing.

"He was very ex­cit­ed," she said, adding his dream was to work abroad.

"He loved weld­ing, it was his pas­sion. He was loved by many, his teach­ers, even Pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona recog­nised he had po­ten­tial."

Brown's friend is as­sist­ing po­lice with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions and WP Se­ri­oux of Homi­cide Re­gion 3 is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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