Grief as Inverness family mourns

After her sister died in 2017, Cynthia Linton took her nephew, 22-year-old Nicholas Spencer, under her wings, providing nurturing and protection for him.

The two shared a bond which was broken by a violent incident which left Spencer dead.

The youngster was stabbed to death at a bar in their community in Inverness, St Ann, last Saturday night.

"Up to this morning I was crying because I feel it to my heart, because from him mother dead I try to be there. Him born and grown in a me hand," Linton told THE STAR. "It is my nephew and we rap good; when me a tell you, sometimes him will just run up and lift me up; or if me just a go about me business, him bounce me and say, 'Aunty, you alright?'"

Reports from the Alexandria police are that at about 9:55 p.m., patrons were at a party being held at a bar in the area when a fight developed between Spencer and some others.

He was stabbed in the head and upper body. A teenager was also stabbed and injured. Both were taken to hospital where Spencer was pronounced dead and the teen admitted.

Linton recalled their conversation just mere hours before he was killed.

Being kind-hearted

"Saturady night about 7' o clock, me see him and ask him where is the 'three piece' from KFC me ask him to buy for my birthday when him go Brown's Town, because me never see him wid it. Him turn to me and say me think you say you want three bills, and me say no. Then him say, 'You birthday a Friday, you will get it,' and him go through the door," she related.

Linton spoke of her nephew as being kind-hearted and who was like a beam of light in a dull moment.

"He is very kind and nothing was too great for him to give away. If you see him and say, give me a five bills nuh man, him always try to give it," she said. "Him love him other little cousin and everybody; him always a hug up and just make everybody feel happy. Him lively up the place wid him noise, you hear him mouth before you see him."

She added, "It pain me heart, man, and everybody shake up, me a tell you ... He is like a baby to me. The only thing me nuh do for him is bathe him, and even sometime you will hear him a say, 'Me aunty, come give me a bathe nuh'." Spencer's grandmother, Dawn Linton, has been shaken up by his death.

"I'm trying to do my best but it has not been easy, because I'm not eating anything," she said. "Me have 14 grandchildren and him was the best one; him just nice, him nuh give no trouble."

Two men are currently in custody and another is being sought after by the Alexandria police in relation to the incident.