NAMPRIEL DISTRICT, Westmoreland — For 12 year-old Dermain Campbell, Easter Monday will always be the day he found his father’s lifeless body, in a pool of blood, at the rear of their four-room home.

The two were at home, Dermain said, when a male voice yelled “yow” from the back of the house. His 46 year-old father, Charlie, went to investigate, calling “a who dat?” Those were the last words he spoke.

“Me hear the explosion,” explained the young boy.

Thinking it was either a gunshot or a fault in the electricity supply, he said, he scrambled to the floor. It was then that he saw the bullet hole.

“When me look through the hole mi no see nutten but when me look down on the floor mi see mi father, dead,” he told the Observer.

The bullet had entered Charlie’s right jaw and exited at the back of his neck.

The shaken teen said he waited for about 15 minutes, then found his father’s phone book and started making phone calls to alert lawmen and relatives about what had happened.

According to residents of the normally crime-free community, they heard a single explosion but did not attach much significance to it.

At the time of his death, Charlie aka “Bi Bow” was wearing a pink T-shirt, faded blue jeans, a pair of old black shoes and a white baseball cap. His unknown assailant is on the loose as the Negril police continue their investigations.