Left:Anna-Lisa Goddard, whose 17-year-old son Onasis was shot dead on Monday night. Photos: KARLA RAMOO
Right: Onasis Goddard

Anna-Lisa Goddard has been left with no other choice but to pack her bags and flee her Bagatelle home, after the shooting death of her 17-year-old son Onasis on Monday night.

According to the distraught mother of three, men dressed in black and pretending to be police officers have been driving around the area terrorising residents. The teenager, also known as “Black Boy,” met his death while sitting on a bucket at the side of the road at Pine Drive in Bagatelle in the company of two men. The incident occurred shortly after 8.30 pm.

It is believed a car carrying four men who identified themselves as police officers and dressed in black approached the group and opened fire. The two men fled leaving Goddard behind. He was then shot dead. Awaiting her son’s autopsy result at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, Goddard said she believed the men who killed her son were also responsible for the murder of her nephew Levi Mendoza.

Mendoza, also 17, of Queen Drive, was shot dead at Bagatelle three weeks ago. No one has been arrested for his killing. According to Goddard, since her nephew’s killing her family had been living in fear. Goddard said she was forced to move her children out of the area and send them at relatives living elsewhere. “The men who come to kill my son said they is police so my son did not move,” she said.

“One of the men who was with my son pick up a shot and he throw himself in the bush and pretend he dead.” Saying her son was not a member of any gang, Goddard said her son was only guilty of “having real girls.” “He was a real girls’ man...My son just leave school and I was trying to get him in the army,” she said. Pleading for love to return to Bagatelle, Goddard said the area had been plagued with gun-related crimes. “The same people who kill my nephew kill my son. They driving around the area pretending to be police and terrorising people,” she said. “Is time for the love to return to Bagatelle.”