Shooting victim knows assailant, but not motive

Police are investigating the motive behind a shooting that has left twenty-seven year old Raymond Gentle in the K.H.M.H. with gunshot wounds to his right chest and left leg. Gentle, who came out of jail two years ago and claims to have gone straight, says he knows his attacker, but he has not had a run-in with him or the law…or anyone else for that matter.

Raymond Gentle, Shooting Victim

“We does hang out in the street together. But since I gone do a certain long term time, after my prison time I conscious that the street life I mi di live before I gone dah (to) prison dah noh (is not) the way fi me, because I have my girlfriend with two kids. Since I get release from prison I get married, me and my baby’s mother, and the lifestyle weh (that) I the live I figure more or less that one or two of the youths out ah the neighbourhood have something personal against my lifestyle weh I live. And that dah the way how my fight down come in the neighbourhood, cause dah Kraal Road I live and dah Kraal Road deh hang out. So in and out of Kraal Road I face changes with certain people.”

Police have since charged twenty-three year-old Jamie Dawson of Neal Penn Road with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm in connection with the shooting.