{"id":3198,"date":"2019-11-06T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2019-11-08T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T21:38:34","slug":"boys-die-in-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"Boys die in fire- \ufeffResidents cry negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>When the charred bodies of 8-year-old Javinci Palmer and one-year-old Tyler McLeod were recovered from the ashes of their one-bedroom home last Friday night, angry residents in the community of Ban Lane, Paradise, Norwood, St. James, all pointed their fingers at the boys\u2019 mother, Shantel Brown, who is now in police custody.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3195\" data-link=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?attachment_id=3195\" class=\"wp-image-3195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/J-Palmer-238x178.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Javinci<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/McLeod.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3196\" data-link=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?attachment_id=3196\" class=\"wp-image-3196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/McLeod.jpg 480w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/McLeod-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/McLeod-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Tyler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown, 28, was taken into police custody on suspicion of\nchild negligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, members of the St. James Sector One\nOperational Support Team, who were on patrol in the area, observed Brown along\na roadway in her community with a female friend, smoking and drinking, among\nother things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was instructed by the unit to return to her place of\nabode \u2013 an order she initially complied with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIERY NIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments later, after the police unit left the area, Brown\nmade her way back onto the roadway, leaving her four children, which included\nPalmer and McLeod, at home unattended again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not long after, however, tragedy struck, and a fire was soon\nobserved by residents ravaging the one-bedroom board dwelling. Residents who\nwere quick to react to the blaze were rendered powerless, however, as the fire\nspread rapidly across the structure, trapping the children inside, and keeping\nwould-be rescuers out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attempts to douse the flames using water also proved futile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As residents watched helplessly, the burden of their horrors\nwas lightened when one of the four children, a six-year-old girl identified as\n\u2018Princess\u2019, dashed out of the blaze, clutching her sister, a one-year-old girl\n\u2013 half of twin siblings, in her arms. McLeod and Palmer, however, were not so\nlucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters, who related that they received the call about\nthe blaze around 11:55 p.m., responded with two units from the Freeport\nStation. Upon their arrival, firefighters observed that the house was\ncompletely engulfed in flames, while residents relayed that children were\ntrapped in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An operation was rapidly undertaken, enabling the\nfirefighters to quickly bring the raging inferno under control before it could\nspread to nearby dwellings in the vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following cooling down operations, the bodies of the\nchildren were observed among the rubble left in the wake of the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HOW THE BLAZE STARTED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to one resident who spoke to this newsroom, the\nfire is likely to have started with little Javinci, who was playing with a lit\ncandle, which was used to provide lighting as there was no electricity at the\ndwelling. The resident, who explained that \u2018Princess\u2019 had shared the details\nwith him, explained that Javinci was playing with the candle and had accidently\nextinguished the flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an attempt to re-ignite the candle, he allegedly used a\nlighter to set alight a piece of paper, which he used to light the candle. He\nthen discarded the ignited piece of paper, according to the resident, without\nfirst outing the flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blaze is believed to have started then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOT THE FIRST TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports suggest that Friday night was not the first incidence of Brown leaving her children at home unattended. One resident shared, \u201cShe always a do road and a lef\u2019 di pickney dem\u2026 a nuh di first time.\u201d Other residents added their voices to those claims, with a number of them expressing that on a number of occasions, they have confronted Brown about leaving her children alone at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>-Michael Nattoo<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; <em>Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the charred bodies of 8-year-old Javinci Palmer and one-year-old Tyler McLeod were recovered from the ashes of their one-bedroom home last Friday night, angry residents in the community of Ban Lane, Paradise, Norwood, St. James, all pointed their fingers at the boys\u2019 mother, Shantel Brown, who is now in police custody. 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