(Jamaica Observer) Traumatised and now fearful for his life, a trembling Shane Schue said he listened as police officers shot his brother, 25-year-old Kavorn Schue, repeatedly inside his Jarrett Lane, Mountain View Avenue home, then concocted a story they would later tell their superiors and the public.
Believing at the time that he himself would be shot dead next, the terrified youth said he listened as his younger brother groaned, reeling from the pain of the bullets pumped into his body.
“I don’t know how many shots fired before, but I heard one shot fire first and I got up and looked through a hole in my room,” said Schue, who asserted he did not see the faces of the cops.
“I heard when him (Kavorn) said ‘aaahhhh’ and started to bawl. Same time one of the policeman shot him again and said ‘P#@*y, stop yuh noise’,” recounted a weeping Schue, who was slumped over with grief as he spoke to the Jamaica Observer metres from where his brother’s bloodied bed chalked up chilling reminders of the events that unfolded about 4:00 am yesterday.
Penned up in his room, a small wooden shack next to his brother’s room, Schue said he listened as the cops discussed among themselves the report they would later file.
“All this time I was there listening them and I heard like one of them ‘select’ them gun and them start plan what to do,” he said, weeping.
“And them start plan to say that two men (gunmen) were in the bed and that one jump out and ran through the door,” he said, pointing to a kitchen door, which he claimed the cops flung open before firing shots in the kitchen to corroborate their story.
It was then that he feared most that he would have been next in the line of fire, said Schue.
“Is dem time deh I sent my (other) brother a ‘please call me’ (cellphone text message) and he called me and I told him what happened. ’Cause I couldn’t move. If they knew that I was in there they would have killed me too,” he reasoned, adding that “they were testing the door but I had locked it with the latch.”
That decision to bolt the door, coupled with his resolve to stay silent, saved his life, he now believes. He stayed holed up in one corner of the room for about 15 minutes fighting to hold back the sudden urge to release faeces and urine brought on by his fear and his visualising his brother’s lifeless body in the adjacent room.
Schue said he remained in the spot until the cops’ footsteps were replaced by shouts from neighbours and more gunfire.
When the Sunday Observer called the Constabulary Community Network (CCN) — the police information arm — late yesterday evening regarding the shooting, the official report corroborated the story Schue said he heard the cops planning to give after killing his brother.
