Father Of Homicide Victim Says Saint Lucia Becoming ‘ Like A Cemetery’

Black Immigrant Daily News

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Concerned about the frequency of deadly gun violence which claimed the life of his son Joshua Jn Baptiste on Tuesday night, a Ciceron Castries father has lamented that Saint Lucia is becoming like a cemetery.

“I seeing like Saint Lucia turn to like a cemetery. I seeing the children not taking example. They moving careless and don’t care – they following friends,” Mc Lean Cherubin told St Lucia Times.

Cherubin said someone called him on Tuesday night saying that his son had been shot in Castries.

Mc Lean Cherubin – Father of deceased

“When I reached, they were just moving out with the body,” the father recalled, adding that the death of his son had plunged the family into mourning.

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Cherubin said he had repeatedly cautioned his deceased son regarding his associates, some of whom the young man had only recently met.

“Moving around with friends – sometimes fellas you just get to know you tag up with them. I always tell him that’s not the right way. I tell him: ‘I don’t like that’. He is a big man. I can’t beat him. All I could do was talk to him,” he said.

Cherubin said Joshua Jn Baptiste was twenty-six years old.

According to the police, Jn Baptiste was walking along St Louis Street, Castries, when an unidentified individual shot him multiple times in the back at about 6:30 pm.

An ambulance transported the victim to the OKEU Hospital, where a medical practitioner pronounced him dead.

Saint Lucia has recorded 58 homicides, including three fatal police shootings.

Headline photo: Joshua Jn Baptiste – deceased

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