Instead of starting his new job today, Pleasantville welder Keron Brown’s body will instead be at the Forensic Science Centre in St James for an autopsy. Brown, 21, was shot more than ten times in Claxton Bay on Saturday night after he left home to collect money from someone who was owing him.
“He was a good one. My son was on the road to success and somebody stop my child future,” his mother Sherryann Brown said at her Orchid Gardens, Pleasantville home yesterday. She said she believed Brown, the fourth of her five children, was set up.
According to a police report, around 10 pm Brown and his friend were among three occupants in a silver car travelling along Ocean Drive. Police said the car stopped and Brown and his friend got out to urinate when they heard gunshots. Brown’s friend said he hid in the bushes as the driver of the car sped off. When he came back out he found Brown shot several times. Brown later died on the scene.
Police recovered 21 spent shells and one live round of 9 ammunition. Sherryann Brown yesterday called for justice in her son’s death. “I need some satisfaction for my son,” she said. She said Brown left home shortly after 8 pm and travelled to St Margaret’s where he met his friend and they were liming at a bar.
The mother did not know how much money her son went to collect or whether he collected it. “I went on the (murder) scene. I saw my son. I could not believe what I see.” She said her son never complained to her about receiving any threats, but she found it “fishy” he was shot so many times.
“That is why I say it was a set-up, because he went to collect money.” The mother recalled that about four years ago when her son was still attending secondary school, he robbed another teenager of his cellphone. She said his matter went before then High Court judge Anthony Carmona, now President, in a programme to help young offenders.
Carmona gave him a chance and the matter was dismissed. The mother said Brown turned his life around and pursued several welding courses, received several certificates and became a qualified A-Class welder.
“He was supposed to start working at a shutdown in Point Lisas tomorrow morning.
“He was very excited,” she said, adding his dream was to work abroad.
“He loved welding, it was his passion. He was loved by many, his teachers, even President Anthony Carmona recognised he had potential.”
Brown’s friend is assisting police with their investigations and WP Serioux of Homicide Region 3 is investigating.