Mom devastated as daughter gunned down

Two children are left motherless as gunmen shot and killed a pump attendant at a Petcom Gas Station on Passagefort Drive, Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as 31-year-old Chevelle Lewis, of Compound in Central Village, also in the parish. Police reports are that minutes after 4 p.m., Lewis was approached by men travelling on a motor cycle who shot her several times in her upper body. She died on the spot.

About an hour after the incident, Lewis' mother and other relatives rushed to the scene. Clinging to another woman for support, the distraught mother peered at her daughter's body and pleaded with the police to remove her from the ground.

"Unno please take her up off the ground. Mi love mi daughter, enuh, she deh with mi from day one. It come in like mi granddaughter feel her mother death. She tell mi say a mi a go take her go school Monday and see it deh, a same suh it go," she said.

Lewis, who would have celebrated her birthday next week, had reportedly started her shift at work less than two hours before her life was snuffed out. Her grief stricken mother said she had struggled to raise her children alone and seeing her offspring die in such a horrific manner was unbearable.

"Mi daughter, may yuh soul rest in peace. A mi oldest daughter and mi battle with mi pickney dem alone without any father. Father God, mi serve yuh so mi know you nah go make this go in vain," she wailed.

A police officer on the scene told the news team that Lewis' death is possibly linked to an ongoing gang war in Central Village.