jamaican kid in the bronx shot dead

[Gen]

<span style="font-size: 14pt">14-year-old student found dead in Bronx park
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A worried Bronx father who went out to look for his son early Friday made a horrifying discovery: the 14-year-old murdered in a park, with a tennis racket in his hand.

“He was the best kid you could ask for,” said Cassell Brooks of his youngest child, Kemar.

“He had a bright future,” said Brooks. “He was exceptional. Why him?”

<span style="font-weight: bold">The father said said he gave Kemar some money Thursday evening so he could go out and play tennis in nearby Haffen Park.

He waited up past midnight for him, then went to bed. At 3 a.m., Kemar still wasn’t home, so Brooks walked the perimeter of the park, looking for him, to no avail.</span>

Two hours later, he went out again and rushed into the park, where he spotted his son’s body.

“His face was sideways on the ground,” said Brooks, 50. “I saw some blood coming out of his nostril. My heart dropped.

“He was lying on his side with the racket in his hand,” he said.

Police said Kemar had head trauma and may have been shot. Shell casings were found on a nearby basketball court.

A woman who lived near the tennis courts said she heard shots sometime after 8 p.m. even as a massive storm bore down on the Bronx.

&quot;It was right after the first burst of thunder,&quot; said Marie Johnson, 70. &quot;I heard about four shots. I know it was shots, not the storm.&quot;

Witnesses told cops they saw the teen playing tennis until about 8 p.m., but it’s not known what happened between then and when his father found him.

No arrests have been made.

Brooks said there was nothing in his son’s life that would suggest it would end violently.

&quot;There was no sign of this. He was a brilliant kid. He was not a child who was ever in trouble,” he said. “He was an A-student.”

<span style="font-weight: bold">Outside his Baychester home, where the family moved from Jamaica two years ago, the heartbroken father cradled Kemar’s academic awards from the Bronx Academy of Health Careers and his bowling trophies and honor roll pins from middle school.</span>

&quot;You didn't have to push him,&quot; Brooks said. &quot;He went out and did what he had to.&quot;

&quot;He was a very good kid. He was a great runner,&quot; he said. &quot;He loved to play tennis. He played from morning until night.”

<span style="font-weight: bold">Kemar’s aunt said she warned him a few days ago to stay away from the park.

&quot;It's a cemetery,&quot; said Arlene Brooks, 51. &quot;Too many people died in that park. I told him a couple of days before it happened. I said be careful of that park. I said don't go there or someone will kill you.</span>&quot;

“He said 'Aunty, everything OK,'&quot; she said. “He was too young to realize...At that age you don't listen.”

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[Gen]

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i don't even know what to say. him just come a farrin 2 years ago.

if him aunty did know seh the park a bad place, why him father mek him guh out deh guh play ??

is last night when all that storm a pass choo the area this happen

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[jah_yout]

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Post-traumatic slave syndrome...the kid that pulled the trigger probably not even aware he is suffering from it....the miseducation of the media, music, school shytstem and religion is taking a heavy toll-- Nubian youth destroying themselves thru the self-hatred wrought by the fake graven image they put out there as &quot;Jesus&quot;....and the mystery spook they teach of some call &quot;God&quot; and &quot;Allah&quot;

[jah_yout]

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Why they used a photo of him throwing signs? Will no doubt make some people think he was a gangbanger

[Tropicana]

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*sigh*

[ILP]

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Sigh...indeed.

[jamaica_dreamin]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why they used a photo of him throwing signs? Will no doubt make some people think he was a gangbanger </div></div>


I agree!

[barosa]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Kemar’s aunt said she warned him a few days ago to stay away from the park.

&quot;It's a cemetery,&quot; said Arlene Brooks, 51. &quot;Too many people died in that park. I told him a couple of days before it happened. I said be careful of that park. I said don't go there or someone will kill you.&quot;

“He said 'Aunty, everything OK,'&quot; she said. “He was too young to realize...At that age you don't listen.” </div></div>
How can a family or anyone know how to deal with a tragedy of this kind. It's not a situation for outsiders to readiy pass judgement for what has happened. They say that &quot;hindsight is 20/20&quot; when something like this happen; <span style="font-weight: bold">His aunt knew and warned of the dangers of that park,</span> she more than anyone else in that family is probably feeling it the hardest. Sometimes, young Jamaicans have to be protecded from themselves. dont I know? I feel and pray for them and that includes his dad and the rest of the family, it can' be easy..
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[j-kid]

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Question: So Why di gang signs?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Brooks said there was nothing in his son’s life that would suggest it would end violently.

&quot;There was no sign of this.</div></div>

[jamaica_dreamin]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Question: So Why di gang signs?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Brooks said there was nothing in his son’s life that would suggest it would end violently.

&quot;There was no sign of this.</div></div> </div></div>

I have seen other teens with no gang involvement pose making gang signs on sites like facebook.

[Gen]

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his father


Police have made no arrests in the case, and it isn't known if Kemar was targeted in the shooting near the tennis courts in Haffen Park in the Eastchester section.

The teen's father, Cassell Brooks—50 years old and a deacon at Gospel Academy Church of Jesus Christ—said he was baffled when his son didn't return home Thursday night and waited up for several hours before going to bed.

When Mr. Brooks awoke at 5 a.m. and the youngest of his five sons wasn't home, he said he initially sat in front of his home, waiting.

&quot;I just think that maybe he stayed with his friends,&quot; the father said. &quot;And I was waiting out here and I said, 'I'm gonna meet him on his way in to discipline him.'&quot;

Assuming Kemar followed his usual summertime routine of playing tennis after summer school, Mr. Brooks headed to the courts. After walking only a short distance, he spotted a body on the ground next to the courts, he said. He got closer and saw the tennis racket.

&quot;I just walked up to him and then came back to my house,&quot; the father said, head bowed

here

[j-kid]

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Yeah, dat can bi ah dangerous practice.

[Gen]

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according to one report I read, his son was with a group of kids who were also playing tennis and when they heard gunshots they started to run out of the park.

at some point, after they had made it out they realized he was not with them

<span style="font-style: italic">the father was interviewed on tv and said something to the effect that him never know teenagers (assuming it was other teens who killed him) were so violent.</span>