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LOWMANS YOUTH KILLED
FRIDAY,
MAY 9, 2014
by KENVILLE HORNE
ANOTHER MOTHER IS LEFT to mourn the loss of her son to gun violence. On Tuesday around 9:10 pm, Mavis Hamilton had already set her mind to watch the TV drama ‘Bold and the Beautiful’, but instead she was forced to contend with the death of her son, 20- year-old Kyle Phillips. Kyle was only about 40meters away from his home in the small Lowmans Leeward area of Spring, when he was cornered by two gunmen and shot. He managed to run for about 2 minutes to Buddy Gutter, where he fell in a resident’s yard. Residents summoned the ambulance which transported him to the Milton
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Mavis Hamilton, Kyle’s mother, was close to the scene of the shooting but did not realize it involved her son.
Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH), where he died.
Recounting the episode When THE VINCENTIAN spoke with the mother of the deceased on Wednesday, amidst her obvious grief, she recounted the episode as she remembered it. She was just about settling down to viewing ‘Bold and beautiful; when she heard three shots. “When I heard the shots, I burst the door. When ah look ah see them (the gun-men) bending down and running,” recalled Mavis.
Kyle Phillips is the latest young man to die by the bullet. He is said to have sustained gunshot wounds to his stomach and left hand.
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Foul play suspected in baby’s death she and Romano retired to bed together last Friday night, but she began feeling POLICE SUSPECT FOUL PLAY in last Saturday’s dehydrated. She got up shortly after destruction of a house at Rose Place by fire, midnight and went to a nearby shop, which claimed the life of a 2-year-old boy. ‘Yanky’s’, to purchase candles and foodstuff, A reliable source made the confirmation leaving Romano alone at home. She said to THE VINCENTIAN on Wednesday. she pushed in the door but did not look. The charred body of the toddler, Romano The mother of four recalled that ‘Yanky’s’ Cupid, was found in the debris by fire was “rushy” when she got there, resulting department personnel, who responded to a in her having to wait longer than she had call relaying information that the house anticipated before she was served. was on fire, early Saturday morning. Petrian said that while she was Romano and his mother, Petrian John, returning from the shop, someone told her had lived together alone in the small that a fire had destroyed her house, but she wooden one-room structure. The house was did not believe. located in a yard in which other houses “I say my shanty can’t burn, and he said, were located, and in which several persons ‘Yes, your house burn and your child dead’,” lived. she recounted. Petrian, originally from New Adelphi, “Although I didn’t believe, I started told THE VINCENTIAN Tuesday that, crying, and a girl came and told me the prior to the incident, she had been receiving same thing,” Petrian related. threats from someone, and she had made several reports to the police. Continued on Page 3 The charred remains of the wooden house in which the burnt The 38-year-old domestic recalled that body of Romano Cupid (inset) was found. by HAYDN HUGGINS