Sascha Wilson
While Coast Guard divers were searching for the body of Samuel Pierre, 21, yesterday, in the Cipero River, his mother was praying that he was alive.
In a brief interview at her Pleasantville home, she said, “I feel my son is still alive. I trust and have faith in God that he is alive. I feel he gets lost in the bush somewhere. I want to see my son come home.”
Samuel Pierre
Marvin Smith
The mother said when his friends came looking for him on Friday morning, she told them that he was not home because she does not like her children to go to other people’s homes. But, Pierre met up with them. While he loves to hunt, especially iguanas, Diablo, the mother of six, does not believe he went hunting because he did not have a bag with him.
The Coast Guard divers had started their search on Friday and returned to Cipero River at Riverside Drive, San Fernando, where Pierre, fondly called Sammy, disappeared under the murky water while trying to swim to the other side to catch iguanas.
His four friends, including two brothers, all teenagers, raised an alarm and a man searched the water but could not find him. The brothers’ mother Jewel Stewart, a single parent, said her sons knew she was going through financial hardships.
“Yesterday (Friday) they left home to go hunting because due to the situation home they said they would catch iguana to sell and make money to help me out home.” She said she considered Pierre as a son. “So it hurt me as a mother that even though it wasn’t my son and them that drown. Sammy come like a child to me because he does always be by us.” Investigations are continuing.