Family claims weapons raid destroyed home

And while the victim’s family mourn his passing, relatives of the young teenagers that police detained in connection with the murder are crying foul. This morning News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin followed the trail of investigators looking for the killer.

Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting
Lisa Matura’s fifteen year old son was one of the first suspects picked up questioning in connection with the death of Jomo Lamb. Matura claims that while her son has been in trouble with the law on a number of occasions, he is not responsible for the murder. The family’s Arlington Drive was raided by authorities around six this morning as investigators searched for the weapon used in the shooting.

Lisa Matura,
“At least my house mi di sink down inna swamp and wood lice mi di tek it, but I coulda mi open mi door, step inside, relax inna mi chair. If I feel like sweep out, I coulda sweep out. If I feel like move round, I coulda move round. If I feel like look fi something, I coulda look fi something. Now I can’t even reach inside. I noh got no kinda hope again.”

Tonight the Matura family claims that police caused irreparable damage to their home during the search.

Joseph Matura,
“Because they are the law, the police, but they wrong too sometimes. When you want to search someone’s house, you have to have a warrant. You just can’t come stamp down door and point firearm inna people’s face. That wrong.”

In addition to the mess, the family also showed us a hole in the zinc roof that they charge was made by one of the four police officers that visited the house.

Joseph Matura
“I mi think they had a warrant, but they no had a warrant. They just came, open the door, took out the firearm, and shoot through the roof and start to approach everyone for firearms.”

“They come, tek out two big knife, and they start to cut up the chairs and ask we for a twenty-five and a thirty-eight firearm, and we no have no gun. How a gun can fit inna this chair? A gun can’t fit inna this chair. You have to cut the good mattress … but no gun in here. They cut the chair, they cut the mattress.”

Lisa, who is presently unemployed, says she does not know how she will recover from the loss. The mother claims her complaints to the authorities have fallen on deaf ears.

Lisa Matura
“Who I could talk to concern the bullet weh they shot through mi house and mi things weh the police they cut up and dash through mi door. And dah soh they tell me I have to wait until the investigations somebody come. And then they tell me that my son deh pending investigation ah murder.”

Matura says after the police ransacked her house, her son and three other minors were handcuffed and taken in for questioning.

Lisa Matura
“I noh really got nobody by my side. The only person I used to got was my ma. She used to help with my son, but she gone last year. … I noh even like the idea of the company now weh he di heng with, but then sometime I feel like I noh even have the right to talk to ah because I noh have the proper convenience to give ah a sensible home or provide for ah the way I would want to provide for ah. So sometimes I noh feel I have the rights fi tell ah nothing, but then ih dah my son still and only me ih have, he noh have no pa, dah just me he have other than my ma weh gone.”

“Police never yet di come dah my areas. Some wrong kinda information lead them to yah so fi mek they come and treat them lee bwai like that.”

The family says nothing was confiscated by the police during the search of their home. Jacqueline Godwin for News Five.