THE aunt of a teenager who was arrested by the police last week Tuesday, but was found hanging in a holding cell at the La Horquetta Police Station on Saturday, is calling for an investigation into his death, since she believes all of the facts from the police are ’not adding up’.
The dead man is Tyron Peters, 19, of St Joseph.
According to Peters’ aunt, who did not want to be identified, the young man was arrested on a warrant ’for beating a man’. On Friday, the police contacted the man’s relatives and informed them that they were placing him on an identification parade and one of them needed to be there to ensure it was fair.
The La Horquetta station is the headquarters for the Police Northern Division. It is also one of the few stations equipped with two-way mirrors to ensure a suspect does not see his accuser. Friday’s parade, however, was cancelled and put off to Saturday at 9.30 a.m.
On Saturday, Peters’ aunt arrived at the La Horquetta station and said he spoke to her briefly, saying, ’Mammy ah love yuh.’
She said the victim did not pick her nephew out of the line-up that morning. The other men on the line-up were allowed to leave, but Peters remained in custody. The aunt asked why and she was told there was another warrant for him in San Juan. She said she eventually left the station, only to be called back by the police a little later that afternoon.
’They tell me he hang he self,’ she said, as she explained that officers allowed her into the cell to view the body.
She said the position (foetal) she found her relative in did not suggest he had hanged himself.
In an unrelated incident, officers attached to the San Fernando Police Station remained tight-lipped yesterday, after two bandits reportedly stole a police vehicle from the station’s compound.
The Express understands the officer who had the vehicle overnight turned in around 7 a.m. yesterday morning. However, hours later when his colleagues went for the vehicle, licensed PCL 9794, it was missing.
Soon after, officers at the station got a call that the vehicle had been ditched in the Roussillac area. Residents reported seeing it speeding through the area before they later found it crashed just off the roadway. Investigations are continuing.
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