LITITZ, St Elizabeth — A grief-stricken Michelle Lawes is still in disbelief and shock that her son 28-year-old Renroy Francis was fatally mowed down allegedly by his brother following a dispute near their family home on Monday night, here, near the south Manchester/south-east St Elizabeth border.

“… Me never see dem fight. Dem never inna argument none at all. Mi nuh know wah gwan between the two of them. Mi cyah tell you mi cyah explain what happened between the two of them,” she said on Tuesday.

A police report said about 10:30 pm the brothers were at a bar when an argument developed over who should foot a bill. The argument reportedly continued outside the establishment. Police said the accused used his motor vehicle to hit his brother and fled the scene. The injured man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His brother was subsequently held by the police in Spanish Town, St Catherine.

Lawes has been left puzzled as to the sequence of events involving her sons, who she said defended each other.

“If one somebody out a road a war one, the other one a guh in deh guh take up for the other one. Nobody cyah war one and the other nuh go in,” she said.

“It hurts bad, but mi cyah tell you what happened between the two of them…” she added.

She said Renroy lived with her in Lititz while his younger brother worked in Kingston.

She vividly remembers her last encounter with Renroy.

“The last thing me son seh to me seh ‘mommy, mi nuh wash the plate dem enuh, because you nuh lef out nuh Fab [soap]’. Him know seh mi ago come home and quarrel if mi see the plate dem nuh wash,” Lawes said.

“Him seh to him likkle brother [other sibling] ‘mi love you enuh’. Nothing more from Renroy more than Renroy dead…God give me the strength mi tired, mi tired, mi nuh know how mi ago manage,” she added.

“It hurts man sometimes mi [just] wah block it out of mi head. Mi nuh wan think about it,” said the grieving mother.

She recalled times when Renroy would ask to access the internet via her mobile hot spot.

“Renroy would come in and seh ‘Mommy, last favour mi a beg yuh enuh mommy. Last favour, mi a beg u turn on yuh hot spot pon yuh phone mek mi get a call’… No more of that, no more [of him] knocking mi door and seh ‘Mommy, you alright’…” said the distraught mother.