SASCHA WIL­SON

With his dead son’s blood smeared on his face, the fa­ther of one of two men mur­dered in Pleas­antville yes­ter­day vowed to get jus­tice for his child.

Ralph “Nat­ty Rebel” Don­ald­son, in a fit of rage, vowed vengeance as he stood from a dis­tance while un­der­tak­ers re­moved the bod­ies of his son Jah­mie Don­ald­son, 26, and Akeemie Wil­son, 30, from the scene.

Wil­son’s moth­er, Cleopa­tra Wil­son, who was al­so on the scene, screamed: “Who did this to my child?”

The neigh­bour­hood of Elm Street, Co­conut Dri­ve, was rocked by a vol­ley of bul­lets around 11.20 am.

Two men, armed with high-pow­ered guns, alight­ed from a sil­ver car, ran up to where Don­ald­son and his friend, Wil­son, were cut­ting grass and opened fire on them, eye­wit­ness­es said.

They fell to the ground and died in­stant­ly af­ter be­ing shot sev­er­al times. Wil­son, a grass cut­ter, of Gol­con­da Set­tle­ment, was help­ing Don­ald­son cut grass at his home be­fore they went fur­ther down the street to clean an­oth­er prop­er­ty owned by the Don­ald­son’s fam­i­ly.

Mo­ments af­ter the in­ci­dent, Don­ald­son’s fa­ther ran to the scene hop­ing to find his son still alive and hugged his life­less body.

Hold­ing up his large sil­ver pen­dant, the griev­ing fa­ther said: “He and he part­ner is be here cut­ting the yard. They gone over a there by a next yard which be­longs to all of we. Some men pass, I don’t know if my son do some­thing or my part­ner son do some­thing, they pass and just kill them. Watch my face if I find out who kill them I will kill them sev­en days a week and twice on a Sun­day, I will kill them...yuh don’t do them kind of thing.”

Wil­son’s moth­er was in­con­solable as she plead­ed with the po­lice to see her son’s body.

“I want to see my child. Who do this? Why?” screamed the moth­er.

Af­ter the body was put in­to the un­der­tak­er’s van, she was al­lowed to view his body.

Over­come with grief, the moth­er had to be as­sist­ed by rel­a­tives. Po­lice could not im­me­di­ate­ly pin­point any mo­tive for the killings or whether both men were the in­tend­ed tar­gets.

Apart from a gas sta­tion rob­bery charge against Wil­son more than a year ago, po­lice said nei­ther of the men was known to be in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Po­lice of­fi­cers from San Fer­nan­do CID and Homi­cide Bu­reau, in­clud­ing ACP Har­rikr­ishen Baldeo, Supt Ro­han Par­dasie, In­sp Dar­ryl Cor­rie, In­sp Don Ga­jad­har and Sgt Ram­roop were among the of­fi­cers on the scene.