{"id":2417,"date":"2019-06-19T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2019-06-19T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:23:41","slug":"teen-slain-in-green-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Teen slain in Green Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rashaun Stewart<\/strong> – Summer Intern<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventeen-year-old Mark Powell, a resident of Princess Street, was shot and killed in Green Pond, St. James, shortly before 11 on Monday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents heard explosions and summoned the police, who\ndiscovered Powell\u2019s body along a dirt track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teen\u2019s father, Mark Powell Sr., is in disbelief. He last saw his son after they returned home together about 8 p.m. He was reportedly working alongside his son on Barnett Street earlier that day, before returning home, whereupon his son informed him that he planned to purchase some food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Powell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe last time mi see my son, my son was working with mi on\nBarnett Street. We drive in likkle after 8 o\u2019clock. Him tell mi say him going\non the street. Mi ask him fi what and him say him a buy a food. Mi give him\n$1000,\u201d Powell Sr. related. \u201cHim ask mi fi lend him mi bike and mi tell him no.\nMi speak to him five time and tell him fi don\u2019 leave the yard go anyweh and him\nsay him soon come back. From him leave I don\u2019 see him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powell Sr. only received news of his son\u2019s whereabouts the\nmorning after the incident, when he was informed by a friend that his son had\nbeen fatally shot. Powell Sr. attempted to call Mark\u2019s phone several times\nprior to being informed of his fate, but his calls went unanswered. It was then\nthat he began to suspect something was amiss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis morning, somebody call mi and tell mi say mi son dead\npon Green Pond road. Mi can\u2019t believe it. All mi nerves mash up. It mash up mi\nnerves!\u201d Powell laments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A resident of Princess Street with his father, Mark was a\ngregarious, outgoing young man. His friendly nature enabled him to form quick\nconnections with people and he had a number of friends in the area, according\nto his father. One such connection was his girlfriend, a resident of the Green\nPond community. Powell Sr. is uncertain if she was the reason for Mark being in\nGreen Pond and whether the situation went awry while he was on his way to visit\nher.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHim have so much friends. Mi know seh him have a girlfriend\nwho live in Green Pond, but I don\u2019 know where in Green Pond she live. So I don\u2019\nknow if a him girlfriend him follow and gunman kill him or what. I don\u2019 know, I\ndon\u2019 know,\u201d the distraught father lamented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  \u201cHim never a\nscammer,\u201d Powell Sr. commented. \u201cHim never no thief. Him never nobody who inna\nproblem with no-one. Only problem him have was him love friend and company. Him\never have friend.  From him graduate from\n\u2018Senior School\u2019 him have nuff friend weh go a Green Pond. A round deh so him\nborn and grow, so him know nuff people round there,\u201d Powell related. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powell Sr. had an older son who was also slain in gun\nviolence several years ago. This son, Romario Powell, died in 2014 at 19 years\nold. He was slain in the John\u2019s Hall area where he reportedly went to purchase\na bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThey kill my son\nfrom him a 19 and my son [Mark] talk bout him bredda every day. And him now\ncome dead when him a 18. Mi a seh if the man dem couldn\u2019t spare him life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMi feel mash up. Mi miss him. Him a the only person left\nback now. Mi a teach him carpenter work, steelwork, tiling and chrome plating.\nThis killing\u2026 it shock mi nerves and it mash up di whole a mi nerves. Mi love\nmi son and mi talk to him every day,\u201d Powell Sr. sobbed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Councillor for the Salt Spring division, Sylvan\nReid, expressed condolences and condemned the killing. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while and\nwe haven\u2019t had one in that time. It is very telling that presently the measures\nthat we have in place are just not working. It\u2019s an isolated incident, of course,\nbecause as I said before, it\u2019s been a while. But it is not only in this\ndivision that these things are happening even though we have a State of\nemergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The murder is being investigated by the police force\u2019s\ndetectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Powell Sr. only received news of his son\u2019s whereabouts the morning after the incident, when he was informed by a friend that his son had been fatally shot. Powell Sr. attempted to call Mark\u2019s phone several times prior to being informed of his fate, but his calls went unanswered. It was then that he began to suspect something was amiss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,1309,1080,1311,20,1310,30],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-green-pond","tag-gunshots","tag-mark-powell","tag-murder","tag-teen-murdered","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}