A year after three young men were fatally shot by police on South Road, their families are concerned that the outcome of a pending inquest into their deaths is a foregone conclusion since no civilian eyewitnesses have come forward to recount what they had seen on the night of the shooting.
Although witnesses at the scene had recounted the moments leading up to the shooting, the men’s families say these persons are understandably afraid to come forward and as a result evidence gathered from the investigation has been solely the result of “police investigating police.”
Cousins Jermaine Canterbury, 21, and Mark Anthony Joseph, called “Two Grand,” 19, died on October 12 last year, while Romario Gouveia, also 19, died two days later from a gunshot wound to the jaw which was not considered by doctors to be life threatening. Canterbury sustained about 12 bullet wounds to various parts of his body, while Joseph was shot four times. Police claim that the trio were shot during an exchange
