4-yr-old killed by minibus in Tiger Bay
Family members try to revive the dead child’s mother, Onicka.
Family members try to revive the dead child’s mother, Onicka.

A NURSERY school boy, wishing to bring joy to the heart of a crying two-year-old who had no kite, lost his life as tied to get one for him.

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Dead: Jadon Andrews

Dead is Jadon Andrews, aged 4, of Queen Street, Tiger Bay, and a pupil of St. Margaret’s Starters Nursery School. He was the son of Oswald Andrews and Onicka Charles.
Struck down on Water Street outside Giftland shortly after noon yesterday, Jadon was pronounced dead, moments after being admitted at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. He died while receiving treatment.
Tragedy struck around 13:35 hrs. when a speeding Route Number 45 minibus, travelling north along Water Stree, hit the child who was crossing the road. Witnesses said the driver, after hitting the child, drove away, but was stopped by a Social Worker travelling on the bus.
Under pressure, he took the injured child to hospital.
Relatives said the child who had suffered broken ribs, was bleeding internally and died while receiving oxygen. But even though suffering excruciating pain, the injured child was able to give his name to someone on the scene who enquired. And at the hospital he recognized his mother and pleaded with her, “Mommy, don’t go and lef’ me indide hey,” and the mother promised.”I’ll stay with you, Jadon.” But it was soon after that hedied.
A woman who gave her name as Lukesha Kelman related that other boys around had kites and her two year-old, who did not have one, began crying for a kite. She said Jadon offered to go buy a kite from Giftland, just one corner away for the child. However, the woman’s elder child who had observed what was happening, took the money and decided that he would buy the kite.
However, it would appear that Jadon, out of excitement, had still followed the lad, unknown to him, and was at the corner of the road when the accident happened. He said he was in the store when someone ran inside and told him that Jadon just got hit down.
Meanwhile, as news of the tragedy spread, family members, neighbours and friends hastened town to the GPHC where hysteria broke out. Family members were inconsolable; his mother fainted constantly, and there was loud weeping. Relatives and neighbours, in deep shock, recalled what a pleasant and obedient child Jadon was. “His mother never had problems with him,” his tearful grandmother volunteered, recalling that his eldest brother was also killed during the Easter season. He died on Easter Sunday, 2012.

 

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