An emotionally disturbed US-based Guyanese was on Monday shot dead by officers attached to the NYPD after it was alleged that he attacked them with a kitchen knife in his Brooklyn apartment.
Dead: Dwayne Jeune
The dead man has been identified as 32-year-old Dwayne Jeune of Flatbush Gardens Apartment Complex, NY and of Lot 433 Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara.
He was shot once to the chest by an officer, who only last year was involved in a similar fatal shooting. Fox News reported that the man was acting erratic and as such, his mother was forced to contact the Police.
However, as the Police ranks arrived at the scene, Jeune allegedly charged at them with his kitchen knife resulting in one rank deploying a Taser which proved ineffective. It was at this time that another rank discharged a round, mortally hitting the mentally ill man.
The now dead man was no stranger to his neighbours who recalled hearing odd behaviour, but no violent outbursts. The now dead man left Guyana in 1992 and only last year became a US citizen.
His sister, Glenda Jeune, who resides in Guyana explained that her brother was an easy going person and totally the opposite of how he was described by the media.
“He was caring, loving and a very calm individual… He reaches out to his family and I am not too sure what went on before he was shot dead,” the sister noted.
She however, received the news of her brother’s demise on Monday afternoon and was told that the shooting incident took place around 14:00h in the presence of her mother.
The aggrieved sister explained that her brother was distressed and in such a situation, her mother would call 911 and the paramedics would take him to get his medication. However, on the day in question, the ranks who responded to the call, barged into the house using a bright torch light.
“My mother told me that she was sitting with my brother when the cops entered the house… they had a bright light… they shine the light in her face and she couldn’t see so she moved away from her son a little and it was then she heard two gunshots,” the sister related.
After hearing the gunshots, her mother went into the room because she was scared but later came out and it was then she realised that her son was killed.
“My mother said that at no point in time, my brother attacked the Police with a knife… the knife was in the kitchen and it is believed that after my mother was escorted out of the house, the Police ranks planted the knife and to make it look as if it he attacked them”.
The family, she noted, is in disarray as a result of the shooting incident and have since contacted a lawyer to look into the case, since they believe the man was murdered.
A year ago, the trigger-friendly Police rank had killed a mentally ill woman whom he claimed had attacked him.
