Slain twins killed my son, says mom.... Carol Bailey, the mother of 17-year-old Shaquille Brown, who was shot and killed in Waterhouse on June 5, believes that twin brothers Ramone and Rameish Cummings, who were killed by the police in Maverley on Thursday, were behind her son’s death.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Carol Bailey, the mother of 17-year-old Shaquille Brown, who was shot and killed in Waterhouse on June 5, believes that twin brothers Ramone and Rameish Cummings, who were killed by the police in Maverley on Thursday, were behind her son’s death.

BAILEY ... they ran from Waterhouse and went to Maverley

Bailey told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that there was evidence to support her allegations, based on eyewitnesses in Brown’s killing that the twin brothers were involved in his killing. He received 25 bullets.

“See his cap here that he was wearing. Seven shots went through the cap alone. Twenty-five shots him get! Other people were there when the gunmen invaded and they ran, but they know the gunmen because they are from here,” she said.

According to Bailey, Ramone and Rameish had fled the Waterhouse community and settled in the Gully Bank area of Maverley, where they had joined the “West Bank Gang” which, she said, has been terrorising the Carlos Park area of Waterhouse, where Brown was killed. The 24-year-old twin brothers were killed by South St Andrew police on Thursday on Denver Crescent in Maverley. The police said that two 9mm guns were found at the house after the shooting, which allegedly followed a confrontation with the police.

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) launched a probe into the incident after the dead men’s mother, Claudette Matthews, claimed that they were killed while asleep. Residents at the crime scene sympathised with her.

But Bailey and her sister Sonia Henry insist that the brothers were involved in the killing of Brown and were being sought by the Hunt’s Bay police when they were killed.

“Police wanted both of them. They ran from Waterhouse and went to Maverley,” Bailey told the Sunday Observer, adding that they were known in the communities as “Dreadie” and “Bleed Eye”.

“But what about my child? He was using the Wi-Fi on his phone in Carlos Park and they run him down and shoot him. He died on the spot,” Bailey said.

She claimed that with the emergence of the Gully Bank gang, there is no nightlife in the Waterhouse area. Residents want the police to step up their activities against the gang.