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FRIDAY,
MAY 06, 2016
VOLUME 110, No.19
www.thevincentian.com
POLICEMANÊS DEATH EVOKES MIXED FEELINGS
PC Giovanni Charles in a jovial mood, characteristic, relatives say, of his personality. by DAYLE DA SILVA MOTHER OF SLAIN Police
Constable, Giovanni Charles, says that, while she tries to remain strong, she knows that
her only child did not deserve to die in the manner in which he did. Susan Charles told THE VINCENTIAN that she is a believer in God, and that it was through her faith that she has been able to make it through the horrific ordeal. “It have to be God keeping me,” she said. “I would not have been able to be talking to anybody, I would have been breaking down every minute. “But because I believe and put my trust in God, He is the only one keeping me right now,” Charles said. Her son, 26-year-old Police Constable 602 Giovanni Charles, died on Monday, May 2, after being stabbed in the neck and about his body, while on duty at a fair at the Belmont Government School. The incident is said to have occurred shortly after 4pm. Susan recalled her last interaction with her son, saying that she last saw him alive a couple of hours before he was killed. She told THE VINCENTIAN that he came home and told her that he had to report back to work. “He was hustling, rushing, and I was even saying if I knew he had to go back to work, I would have started to cook,” she explained.
Susan Charles, mother of the deceased, says her faith compels her to forgive the perpetrator. She said that she tried to prepare something for him, but time ran out. “It was my only son; he had dreams – he wanted to go and study – but that cut short,” Charles said.
Responding to the perpetrator Regarding her feelings towards the alleged perpetrator of the crime, the grieving mother said that she
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Douglas Pompey, father of Giovani, sees his son’s death as part of the wave of wrongdoings by the youth of the country. had not seen or heard from any member of that family. “The person who did it, he had no right because my son was simply doing his job – he was killed in the line of duty,” she said. But she said that she knows that as a child of God, she is going to have to forgive her killer for what he had done to her son. Continued on Page 3.