{"id":2388,"date":"2019-06-05T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2019-06-05T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:36:34","slug":"%ef%bb%bfhacked-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffHacked to death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><em>Barrington Flemming<\/em><\/strong><em> &#8211; Staff\nReporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A family is reeling in grief after one of their loved ones was brutally hacked to death on Saturday in Hendon, Glendevon, Montego Bay.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mother and son are in police custody after turning\nthemselves in to the police following the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim is 35-year-old Jermaine Streete, who is said to\nhave been suffering with mental health issues and at the time of death, was on\nmedication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports from the Montego Hills Police are that about 10:30\na.m., Streete is reported to have broken the window of his neighbour\u2019s house\n(husband and wife).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The neighbours and another man allegedly armed themselves\nwith machetes and proceeded to Streete\u2019s house where they inflicted several\nmachete wounds to his upper body and then fled the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relatives later stumbled upon Streete lying on the ground\nand called the police. He was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his\ninjuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Jermaine\u2019s uncle, Oneil, said his nephew has been a\nmental patient for years undergoing treatment from the out-patient clinic of\nthe Cornwall Regional Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said they are constantly calling the hospital to send\nambulance for Jermaine to take him there but was always told they do not have\nan ambulance. He also visited the Montego Hills police but was told that it was\nnot their responsibility, but that of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJermaine was on a 24-hour watch because when the illness is\ntriggered, he attacks a particular person, not verbally but does damage to the\nhouse or premises. We have recompensed the person twice for the damage and we\ntry to keep him away from that house and family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the uncle, he received a call from his brother\nthat the neigbours said Jermaine had broken two window panes, and he advised\nhis brother that he would deal with it when he got home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;He said he took his\nparents home and left them with Jermaine and went to the Montego Hills Police\nto summon them to come with him to the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was upon my arrival home with the police that I got the\nshock of my life. There was a chop to the neck. You could see straight into his\nchest and other chop wounds and blood everywhere. So, we took him to hospital\nand he died there\u201d he explained. \u201cWe tried our best to keep him away from\ntrouble and to protect him. We wanted him committed, but it didn\u2019t work out.\nSo, now we are traumatized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbours and another man allegedly armed themselves with machetes and proceeded to Streete\u2019s house where they inflicted several machete wounds to his upper body and then fled the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}