Mom has no tears for suspected child killer

Despite getting her 'wish' for her murder accused son to be killed, Lurline Williams made it clear to THE STAR that his death didn't bring full satisfaction.

Williams' son, Giovanni Ellis, was fatally shot by police yesterday afternoon and was named as the person of interest in the rape and murder of nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon, a crime that sent shockwaves across Jamaica. Williams, a firebrand mother who never minced words, said she had already washed her hands of her son's alleged wrongdoings.

"Mi nah back no pickney weh do dem wrongs," she said bluntly. "When you go out and do your crime, anything you get off a it, a fi yuh business that. Mi nuh responsible fi it. Nuh because me bring you into this world everything you do people fi come kill me fi you. Mi nah give up my life for nobody, mi nuh Jesus."

Williams revealed she felt more fear of her son than from angry residents of Job Lane, Spanish Town - where the incident occurred - who threatened her house in the aftermath of the prime minister's visit on Sunday.

"I am so disappointed in these people because them know wi and know we have no ties with him. But them run in with long machete and big iron... with two little babies in the house! Tell me what kind of people dem deh? Them have heart?" she questioned.

Williams said it was her son's past behaviour, including his alleged involvement in his older brother's death, that had caused her to draw a line in the sand.

"Mi know say him cost mi big son life over Gregory Park, so it look like him come do this now fi cause this one life. According to him, mi nuh love dem because me leff dem father. Mi nah stay inna no relationship weh mi and you haffi go battle it out every day like a war mi deh," she said. When asked how she felt identifying her son's body, Williams didn't hesitate.

"Well mi did a expect say when mi look pon him mi woulda feel sad, feel breakdown... but no," she said. "When me look pon him, me look pon him and say, 'This is the way you want go, eh?' For a young youth weh a 30 year old, and you go Georges? Look at you now.'"

She added: "Mi cyaa have no heart fi yuh because of what you do the little baby."

Williams said she feels relief now that the ordeal is over. "Mi can sleep tonight. Mi can eat some food today."

But for her, the way he died, shot twice by police, wasn't enough punishment. Many in Job Lane also voiced dissatisfaction.

"Mi love seh the police dem move fast but dem shouldn't kill him," one irate resident told THE STAR. "A right here so dem shoulda carry him back mek the community deal with him."

"The government shoulda give we jungle justice! Oh God man, nine year old? Him nuh get enough fi what him do to her, we nuh pleased," said another. Still, for Williams, there are no funeral plans and she's not lifting a finger.

"Mi nuh response fi him. Mi done tell the police if mi identify the body, mi nuh responsible fi it. Mi nuh business wah unno want do with it," she said.

"Even when mi identify him, everybody a look pon me like 'Really? The mother come and she talk like that and no tears, no little remorse, nor nothing.'" Williams also had a a message for mothers like her.

"If your son wrong, do not back him. Do not protect him. When them wrong, them fi get discipline for their wrongs." Williams said her family, including her other two sons, will take it day by day and leave the rest to God.

"We know the disgrace ago put a little damper on us, but we nah watch that because we know we not guilty of anything," she said. "So mi not worried."