‘Dem duh mi grandson bad’
Family horrified as loved one’s scarred body is found
The horrific image of his face ripped apart and his partially naked body exposed are giving the loved ones of Malik Johnson nightmares.
This picture may be etched in their minds for a long time as a photograph of the 24-year-old Two Miles resident continues to make the rounds on social media. Yesterday, when the news team spoke with Johnson’s grandmother, Carmen Graham, in her Payne Land community, she burst into tears.
“My God. Mi hardly sleep. Dem duh mi grandson bad. Mi get nightmares when mi memba it,” she said.
According to The Constabulary Communications Network, an unidentified body was found in the Rose Town community about 6 a.m. Saturday. Graham, however, stated that they have positively identified the body as that of Johnson. She said that she last saw her grandson just hours before he died and he was in an upbeat mood.
“Mi sell sweetie and him come and beg mi a sweetie. Him live outta Two Miles with his other grandmother, but him come here all the while come look for him mada. Him nuh really a troublesome somebody, but when yuh trouble him you will get him out. But him never ever disrespect mi yet. A my likkle Malik,” she said.
Graham said that after spending a little time with his relatives, Johnson bid her goodbye and told her he was about to head home. She said hours later they received a call that Johnson was dead.
“Him auntie go round a him yard when we hear say him dead but dem say dem can’t find him. We start hear about the photograph say him hands tie up and him foot dem tie up but we never see it. We call the police and report it and dem say we must go Hunts Bay go make missing person report but we a say a never 24 hours yet,” she said.
Graham said that shortly afterward, Johnson’s mother received a call from the police to visit Tranquility Funeral Home to identify a body believed to be that of her son.
“When it confirm say a Malik, mi belly come in like it drop out because him never do mi nutten. Him just come from prison in a April, enuh. Three years and odd him deh a prison fa. One youth say him shoot after him suh dem charge him for dat shooting. The yute go away go farrin and never come back. Malik did still deh pon remand, him never get sentence yet,” she said.