Father of five’s murder puts
After his father died in a motor vehicle accident in 2010, and his brother in 2014 due to asthma, 36-year-old Kayon thompson was the only male remaining in his immediate family.
And so, the businessman vowed to support and provide for his mother, younger sister, and by extension, his five children — ages one, four, six, 12 and 16 — no matter what.
The main way he did so was by operating a bar in Bogue Hill, on his family property, overlooking the St James capital of Montego Bay. But on August 27, Thompson was shot and killed at his bar by gunmen during what police described as an “illegal party.”
However, his family, bereaved and torn, told the Jamaica Observer that the event at which their “breadwinner” was murdered, was an attempt by him to generate income to support the family through hard times brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“All of what he did is for the family,” sister Kellisia
Thompson stated. “Everything that he did. My brother is all about my mother, his kids and me. We don’t have anybody else. My older brother and my father died couple years back, so it was just the three of us. Fourteen years ago, asthma killed my other brother and seven year ago, my father died in a crash. He told my mother that he is the man of the house now. The three men I am used to in my life just gone leave me,” stated Kellisia, who was shot in the arm during the attack.
She was adamant that there was no party at the time.
“It was a bingo party in the day. Rain fall and nobody came. It wasn’t an illegal party. The place was just still open in the night, because it is right on the property. Right across from the house. We sat down in the bar the night and he was asking if he should keep the bingo party next week, because nobody came. We had a big tent with a kitchen and the food never sell off.”
A police source told the Sunday Observer that “two men were fatally shot, and a female injured