Mom of shooting victim:

Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

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Call­ing on law en­force­ment to get a grip on crime, the griev­ing moth­er of Ny­ron Davis yes­ter­day lament­ed that he was in­no­cent and sim­ply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On the brink of tears, Joyce­lyn Hen­ry-Davis said her son, a 32-year-old foot­ball en­thu­si­ast, had gone to Part­ner’s Bar at the cor­ner of Church Street and the South­ern Main Road to watch a FI­FA World Cup match on Sat­ur­day night.

Re­ports stat­ed that around 10 pm, he was sit­ting on a bench in front the bar with an­oth­er man when they were ap­proached by two men dressed in dark cloth­ing and armed with guns, who opened fire on them.

Davis was struck in the chest and col­lapsed, while the oth­er man es­caped by run­ning away. The gun­men then fled on foot along Church Street. Davis was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in a pri­vate ve­hi­cle, where he died while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment.

Hen­ry-Davis said her son, the youngest of her five chil­dren, worked with a con­trac­tor as a plumber and was not the in­tend­ed tar­get.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at her La Ro­maine home, she said her son was caught off guard be­cause he was in­no­cent.

Lament­ing the lev­el of gun vi­o­lence in the coun­try, she said, “Crime is dis­gust­ing. In La Ro­maine too, every­body have a gun and they don’t care who, they get monies, and they just go and shoot up a place. They don’t care who in­no­cent, guilty, chil­dren or who­ev­er, they just shoot­ing. My son come and get in that sit­u­a­tion. In­no­cent young man, have a bright fu­ture.”

She said neigh­bours heard the gun­shots, but she re­ceived the news from her daugh­ter.

Hen­ry-Davis re­flect­ed that she re­cent­ly dreamt about Davis and be­lieves it may have been a warn­ing. In the dream, he looked younger, had a stom­ach ache and was cry­ing.

“I prayed about it,” she said, but not­ed she nev­er got the chance to tell him about the dream.

Ap­peal­ing to the po­lice, she said, “I know they can’t be in one, all places at one time, but there’s so much peo­ple with so many guns and they don’t care. Some­body pay them off and they just go and shoot at who­ev­er get caught in the melee. In­no­cent peo­ple are be­ing killed.”

The fam­i­ly is await­ing the re­sults of the au­top­sy be­fore fi­nal­is­ing fu­ner­al arrange­ments.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Three re­cov­ered 11 spent 9mm shell cas­ings at the scene and are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.