THE abduction and murder of 45-year-old Fitzroy Davidson, a resident of Denham Town in west Kingston, has left his family in distress.

Davidson, who would have turned 46 years old on February 28, was just outside his house at King’s Heights on Little King Street when he was abducted on Wednesday night. Early Thursday morning he was found dead at a property on Spanish Town Road, with gunshot wounds to his body.

His daughter, Petagay Davidson, described her father as a good man as she struggled to recall events leading up to the killing.

“My father was a good man. Everyday him go work from seven in the morning and come back in the evening. He worked at Caribbean Cement. Wednesday night when him come home, him seh him really tired. Him seh everybody must find something to eat.

“Him buy a food for him and mi mother and they shared it. My father come outside with a cornbread after 7:00 pm and he was out here eating. He went over to my grandparents’ house and when him come back up we could hear him talking. Same time we heard some rustling at the back of the house,” said the grieving daughter.

“Normally, daddy would be the one to check out what a gwaan around the back. By the time we come, out we nuh see him. Mommy started to panic because she couldn’t think of where he could have gone. The only place he would go is down by my granny or to the shop. If he was going to stay long, he would say it. My father nuh hide nothing from us,” Davidson added as she told the Jamaica Observer that she had big plans for her father’s birthday.

She also shared that her birthday is next week.

According to the distraught daughter, her father was awaiting a visa which would have allowed him to take a trip overseas to cool out, since strange and concerning things were happening in the community.

“Him look about him visa because him say him tired a how di place a run. Dem poison mi dog just before that. Anytime nothing funny a gwaan di dog bark, so dem mek sure dem kill him. My father normally secure the building. He is always outside, even at 3:00 am, especially on weekends. He used to be a security so he’s used to staying up late.

“The night of the incident my mother was scared to even look around the back. When she came out she saw the cornbread and the juice out here. My father wouldn’t leave them there so we knew something happened. We heard him cursing with somebody before he went missing. We called him and him phone did just a ring and ring. I don’t see why anybody would want to hurt my father. My father was such a peaceful man. When my father cook, him give everybody,” she said.

Davidson’s father, Sylvester, told the Observer that he is frazzled by his son’s murder.

“Mi deh a zero,” the 76-year-old explained.

“He treat me good. He was a good youth. He was a family man. As big as his children are he treated [them] like babies. Anything him pickney dem want, him work and give them. He is the one who kept the place clean. He always finds something to do,” said the elder Davidson.