PORTMORE, JAMAICA: Gunmen murder brilliant 16-year-old school student, John-Michael Hett and the shooting of two other youngsters. The community is devastated by teen’s death.

THE murder of 16-year-old John-Michael Hett and the shooting of two other youngsters on Monday night has hit the community of Portsmouth in Portmore, St Catherine very hard.

Hett, who was a brilliant student of the Dunoon Park Technical High School, was looking forward to sitting six subjects in the upcoming Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

A policeman from the Greater Portmore
Police Station offers his condolences
 to grieving neighbours of John-Michael Hett
who was shot dead in the community
of Portsmouth on Monday night.
(PHOTO: JOSEPH WELLINGTON)

 

Police report that Hett and his two friends were walking along a pathway in the community when gunmen pounced and shot all three. The friends are now in hospital being treated for gunshot wounds but Hett was not so lucky.

He died on the spot.A group of residents , gathered close to the house where he lived with his mother were openly hurt and devastated at the news of the demise of one of the community's brightest. "He was always on his laptop (computer) studying. He was always one who had manners and you could ask him any word and he could tell you the meaning out of his head," one resident, close to tears, told the Jamaica Observer. Read more: