Call centre worker killed day after turning 23

As Joanne Gordon clenched a necklace she now wears in memory of her late son Dillon 'KC' Walters, she couldn't stop the rush of tears which flowed down her cheeks.

Walters was murdered a day after his birthday, and Gordon, 45, informed THE STAR that she witnessed him take his last breath. Walters, 23, was shot only metres away from their home in Waltham Park, St Andrew last Friday.

"When me hear the shot and rush go out there me see him in a him brother hand and start shake him and say 'Dillon come back, you nuh dead', but him couldn't fight anymore," she said.

Reports are that sometime after 8 a.m., Walters was standing outside his gate when two gunmen travelling on foot approached and opened gunfire, hitting him several times to the upper body. He was then transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead. Gordon recalled her last conversation with him only minutes before he left home for his job at the IBEX call centre.

"I was in the bathroom and him come down and end up have to bathe outside because of the time to leave for work. When me come out me nuh see him so me start call and me nuh hear him. Me did ready to pray with him because every morning before him go out him little sister hold him hand and pray," she said.

Gordon is questioning the motive of the killing because she doesn't know of her son as a wrongdoer.

"Them just take me innocent son. Me can put my head on the block and tell you that my son nuh mix up," she said, voice trembling. "Sometime me feel like me can make it and another day me a say me have to go put my baby under the dirt only God understands."

The St Andrew Technical High School past student graduated with 11 subjects and had always been focused on making provisions for a better life, especially for his sons, ages six and two.

Was a saver

"Dillon was a saver because him say 'mommy me have to take you out of this because we a suffer too long', and him always make sure him children them alright," she told THE STAR. "Him did want to be an accountant because a that him go school for, but it never work so him did a do the call centre work."

Sonia Gordon, Walters' grieving grandmother, said he was humble and success driven.

"Him is not even a person that up and down on the road. Only thing him do is go out go work and come in and him don't really talk, and everybody who knows him love him. So it was so shocking when me hear what happen," she said. "I always feel it for people who lose relative to gun but when it hit home is a different thing."

Gordon added, "All a him brother and sister them feel it because them close and they are always together. I don't want to question God, but me just a wonder why them take my baby from me."