A young man de­scribed as lov­ing and qui­et was bru­tal­ly killed dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in­volv­ing a group of men in Point Fortin yes­ter­day morn­ing.

De-Shawn Par­son, who would have turned 21 on Jan­u­ary 14, suf­fered deep wounds to his head af­ter he was at­tacked with a sharp ob­ject. He died on the way to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH). Two oth­er per­sons were in­jured but were treat­ed and dis­charged from the hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice said around 1.30 am a bot­tle-throw­ing fra­cas in­volv­ing two groups of men oc­curred near the round­about along the South­ern Main Road near the KFC out­let. Par­son was among sev­er­al per­sons in­jured, po­lice said.

At his Fan­ny Vil­lage, Point Fortin home yes­ter­day, his par­ents Tex­ci­ta Mar­cano, 39, fa­ther Dar­ren Par­son, step­fa­ther and oth­er rel­a­tives were in­con­solable.

Point­ing to the in­com­plete paint job on her house, Mar­cano said her son had promised to fin­ish paint­ing to­day. Re­call­ing the last mo­ments with her son, she cried, “Be­fore he leave he say ‘Mam­my I will nev­er leave you.’”

De­scrib­ing him as her “spoil child,” Mar­cano said he was not ac­cus­tomed go­ing out but he went be­cause his friend was go­ing away in a few days. She said her son was not in­volved in the ar­gu­ment.

“As far as I hear he went to buy a burg­er from the burg­er cart (near KFC) and when he turned he back that was it. They hit him a bot­tle in his head and they stab him on his head and drag it (weapon).”

She said af­ter wait­ing about 20 min­utes for the am­bu­lance, the po­lice took her son to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the SFGH. She said he died when they reached Gon­za­les Vil­lage.

“He nev­er had no bad name in the com­mu­ni­ty, he nev­er had a case, or cause to get lock up. He was every­body favourite.”

The moth­er said he was sup­posed to have start­ed a job at An­gos­tu­ra in Jan­u­ary. As the tears rolled down his cheeks, Par­son said his son was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“That fel­lah was re­al lov­ing, a God sent,” sobbed Par­son, who had to seek med­ical at­ten­tion af­ter he saw his son’s body at the hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice have de­tained sev­er­al sus­pects and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.