Relatives and friends yesterday held a “lime” in remembrance of slain Morvant resident Selvon Jack, whom they labelled an innocent, good-natured man.“Imagine, you live your whole life, not being in trouble, not being into criminal activities and it is so you had to dead,” said Jack’s younger brother Sean.Jack was one of three men killed in a gun attack at a Laventille gas station on Saturday morning after he was caught in the line of fire and struck by a bullet.According to police, Jack and the other two victims were killed when gunmen entered the compound of the Unipet gas station at the corner of the Eastern Main Road and the Morvant Old Road, Laventille, just after 9 a.m. and opened fire.
‘GOOD-NATURED’: Selvon Jack
The two other victims were later identified as Makal Campbell, 29, of 13 Poui Street, Morvant; and Malique Akhil Williams, 23, of Erica Street, Laventille.The Express understands that Jack had left his Critchlow Hill, Morvant, home to take one of his neighbours to church and on his way back home he stopped off at the Unipet gas station.When the Express visited Jack’s home yesterday, his friends and neighbours were keeping a “lime” at a community recreation centre a short distance away, remembering his kind nature.Sean, who had returned home after he had positively identified Jack’s body at the Forensic Science Centre in Federation Park yesterday, said his brother had turned 50 two days before he was killed and he had plans to celebrate his birthday the entire weekend.He said although they were siblings they acted more like friends throughout their lives. “I could not even properly view him in the Centre as it was a painful thing to see because I know my brother and he died for things that was not his fault.”He added that if he knew his brother had “cocoa in the sun” then he would have understood.“I may have been sad but I would have said, ‘well, the life caught up to him’,” said Sean.“But that was my brother and my partner. He did air-conditioning and he loved music. The only run-in with the law was a traffic ticket for loud music and horn. That was the most criminal thing he did. Beyond that, he just used to go to work and come back,” he added.“Everybody hurting right now and he was an innocent man killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”He added that while they knew of criminal elements within and outside their community, they never associated with them.“He was a quiet person outside of his music. He never used to even talk hard and it is a hurtful thing to see when it hits home because if he was into that kind of thing (crime), you could have said, ‘karma catch up to him’ but, that was never his thing,” Sean.Meanwhile, one of Jack’s friends, known as “Fire”, told the Express it was not a wake they were keeping. “This is something we would have done at any day or any time,” said ‘Fire’.“It was sad and no one looked for him being killed like that at all, and he did good up to his last. The man could not even talk hard,” he said.“The man was one of the best you could have found in the world. All the man knew was about his work, his family and his old school music,” Fire added.Another friend described Jack one of the hardest-working people he knew.“He was a hard-working man. He was a contractor and that was just it. He used to keep to himself. It was work, then home and then work again. He would not even lime of the block,” said the friend.
