BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE lifeless body of a 28-year-old man was sometime after I0: 00 this morning (Jan. 29) found by police in the back of a pickup truck in the New Road area.
Dead is Kesroy Mills of New Road Housing Project, who is said to have suffered from epilepsy.
According to his mother, Corrine Wallace, who is a member of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, her son has been suffering from epilepsy most of his life and had developed a habit since at school to go missing for several days.
“This has been happening for some time, where he would go to school and wouldn’t come home the same day and I would be up and down looking for him. Sometimes my other son would be up the village looking for him,” the tearful mother said.
She told SKNVibes that while he would go missing, people would tell her that they had seen and fed him, and she would feel assured by that.
Wallace said in 2011 her son had gone missing for seven days and in 2012 he went away from home for two or three days; but in December he was missing for about three weeks.
“When I went and reported he was missing, people would tell me they saw him and fed him. So it was like once people were telling me he was alive I felt a little okay but also worried because he was not taking his medication.”
The grieving mother said that her son, who was born on August 6, 1984 at a hospital in Sandy Point, was a student at the Special Education Unit but was not attending the school or working at the time of his death.
Wallace believed that the two reasons why her son would have stayed away from home so often were because of his mental state and the fact that people feed him.
She said that on his return in January after going missing in December, last, she decided to send him to get a shave and haircut by the neighbourhood barber.
“He did not come back and someone told me they saw him and fed him. So, at least, I knew he was still alive.
“Normally, he would be over the road by some people. And one day they came and asked me where he was and I told them I didn’t know. They said they didn’t see him and would look and see where he could have been,” she said.
“Once he was being fed I knew he was alive, but since last week I been asking people if they saw him, because some time had pass since he been missing and there was no one saying that they saw him.
“And that’s when I called the police and told them I haven’t heard from him. To see I done do so much for him and always made sure he got what he needed; but I would say to myself, ‘Maybe if I had a different job I would have been able to spend more time with him.’ Because when I’m out working…I work on shifts, and when I’m out working my other son is in school. So, maybe he go out and find people to talk to and be around,” she said.
Wallace described her son’s mental state as being “sensible” and that he was able to answer questions correctly but could not have put it on paper.
“He thinks like an adult but writes like a child.”
She said Tuesday (Jan. 8) was the last time he was home, and the last time someone told her that they saw him was on Tuesday (Jan. 15).
Wallace said she was told by police officers that an autopsy would be performed to ascertain the cause of death.
Efforts to reach the Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Inspector Lyndon David, at press time were futile.
