Man killed in alleged case of mistaken identity

Relatives and friends of 31-year-old Tevin Sherwood, who was gunned down on Monday, are adamant that his murder was a case of mistaken identity.

They say that Sherwood, a car washer of Gordon Road, Kingston, was not the intended target. They are questioning how the person who they alleged caused his death is able to sleep.

"How dem sleep knowing say dem wake up the woman innocent pickney out a him sleep and mek him dead?" one person questioned.

Reports from the Denham Town police are that at 12:25 a.m., Sherwood was seated in his vehicle when he was pounced upon by an armed man, who then opened gunfire hitting him in the head and upper body. The police were alerted, and Sherwood was taken to hospital where was pronounced dead.

But residents insist that another man who got into an altercation with someone in the Corporate Area was the intended target. For Sherwood's mother, the pain is shocking and unbearable.

"When mi come back, mi son deh inna him bed a sleep. Mi nuh know wah happen but mi hear say somebody call him out fi go wash car and my son say him hungry and him ago buy something. Him go buy the food and on him way coming back him realise say two car a trail him," she said.

The mother said that an alleged eyewitness said that Sherwood initially returned safely, but was called away again.

"Him come back the second time and inna the car a eat the food and inna it dem kill him," his mother said. She said that when she heard that he had been shot, she couldn't visit the scene.

"If me did go up deh mi woulda drop dung," she said. "Mi can't come to all now. If me neva did a serve God, mi nuh know how me woulda a go through this." She said her son was no troublemaker, just a young man trying to earn an honest living.

"Him wash car fi a living, a hardworking youth because once him get the work him take it, whether day or night. Him have a baby weh a not even two years old yet, and dem just kill him. The police dem say them will get to the bottom of it."