Jermaine Peters
- a life shaped by tragedy and crime

by Shauna Jemmott

 SHAPED BY TRAGEDY? Six-year-old Jermaine Peters and his two siblings one day after his brother, Semple, was brutally killed by a drug addict.
SHAPED BY TRAGEDY? Six-year-old Jermaine Peters and his two siblings one day after his brother, Semple, was brutally killed by a drug addict.

On the morning he was shot, Otis Robinson was at home with her other children and reputed husband and heard a series of gunshots, which sounded like they were being, fired close by. She said at one point, she had a strange sensation in her stomach, and immediately felt sick. When the gunfight was over, she saw a police vehicle passing with someone's feet stretched out at the back of the vehicle, lying on the ground.


'He was by the mango tree then he (the killer) chop he on he neck. I pick he up and he neck been hanging and I carry he inside and he start breathe hard....'" Ten years ago, Jermaine Peters had recounted how he saw drug addict, Baby Arthur chop his brother to death.
JERMAINE Peters was only 15 years old when he was killed in a shootout between police and gunmen in Buxton

 

 

Sunday,October 24, 2004