A teenager who shot and killed a Clarendon businessman execution style last February, at his cook shop in Hayes district, was yesterday sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder. He will be eligible for parole after 21 years
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The convict, 19-year-old Shevanne Harris, was also sentenced to five years for illegal possession of a firearm and three years for illegal possession of ammunition by Justice Courtney Day in the Clarendon Circuit Court. Both sentences are to run consecutively to the murder sentence.
Harris initially pleaded guilty to the offences on January 11 and his sentencing was postponed for yesterday, awaiting a social enquiry report and antecedent.
Facts outlined in the case by lead prosecutor, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Andrea Martin Swaby, are that on February 1 at approximately 4:30 pm Barrington Herdsman was shot in his head outside his business place inside the Newton Plaza in Hayes.
Herdsman’s widow, the sole eyewitness, in her statement disclosed that on the day in question her husband, after counting the day’s sales, went and sat outside on a stool. The witness, who was inside the cook shop, said shortly after she saw a man enter the business place and looked around. He then removed a firearm from his waistband and walked out of the shop towards her husband.
She said that on reaching her husband the man pointed the gun in the back of her husband’s head and fired several shots before running in the direction of Vere Technical High School.
Herdsman was rushed to May Pen Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Three months after the shooting, Harris was held, on May 23, in May Pen and was found with a Glock pistol containing a magazine with 15 9mm rounds in his waistband.
Shortly after he was placed on an identification parade in relation to Herdsman’s murder and was positively identified as the shooter.
:2thumbup :2thumbup :2thumbup Phucka a Suh Dem fi get teck dung one by one who nuh get life sentence fi get kill straightttttt……. menace to society :2thumbup
Who laugh last laugh best so keep rejoice hope u nuh get the same thing bupp!!!
Morning Met :peluk
The power of a witness. Families will never get justice if no one is brave to come up front as a .
She point out the wrong person
He serves no purpose might as well hang him.
Wish it for yourself an u family fool
All a brute like him shouldn’t get no parole. RIP – rot in prison MOFO!
The person that did the shooting is dead the 19 year old was mist identify but see true people like u a talk an u don’t know wahh happen judge u self
Now how did a 19year old obtain a gun, I mean I know its possible, but why? what is the thinking process what is going on in his head? where are his parents? open up communication and find out what is going on.
19 years old…. smh…
Obviously he was paid to do it, which woman see’s a man walking towards her husband and does not scream, shout or say something?