(Jamaica Star) “Every time me see a police vehicle me run and hide,” said Devani Kenyon, a Clarendon man whose photograph was erroneously published on the list of the parish’s most wanted men last year.
Kenyon, 20, said he has been enduring emotional trauma and has been living in fear since last May when his photo was published above the name Delroy ‘Little D’ Burkett, 18, who the police said is wanted for murder.
“Me is no bad youth, me never guh jail or anything before, so fi see my picture on a thing like that me feel a way because I’m not a criminal,” Kenyon told THE WEEKEND STAR. “All that time me just have to stay in because me scared and my life in danger, and I’m not wanted.”
Since the mistake, the Kemps Hill resident has been to the May Pen Police Station twice to have the matter cleared up. Commanding Officer of the Clarendon Division, Senior Superintendent Glenford Miller, confirmed that the error was a mistake on their part.
“I am aware of the mix-up and a new list was sent out. His photo was withdrawn and the correct photo added. Things like that are errors we try not to make because that can have a negative impact on persons,” Miller said. “I do understand how the young man is feeling because I know it will have some serious psychological impact. I also want him to come back to us so he can voice his concerns and we take it from there.”
Meanwhile, Kenyon’s mother, 38-year-old, Kadian Delight, told THE WEEKEND STAR that she is so worried about her son’s safety that she does not want him to leave the community, lest he becomes the target of police.
“Me don’t want to be home and hear say them kill my son innocent, and him don’t know anything about violence,” the distraught mother said. “Me carry him go the station with him birth paper and ID and them say is not him, it was the wrong person and them try to clear it up. Down here in Clarendon might know but what about if my son must go anywhere else?”
Kenyon said that he needs to find a way to get his life on track without having to worry that the erroneous publication could haunt him.
“The police them say them correct it but most of the vlogger them have it up on YouTube and all over so me can’t feel comfortable,” he said. “Me use to work at a wholesale in Lionel Town but right now me fraid to go look a work because people know my face from the list.”