Distraught Mother Recalls Homicide Victim’s Last Supper

On Thursday, Gabriel “Junior” Henry, a resident of Barre Denis, and his brother arrived home at around six in the evening. His mother prepared their dinner, and they sat outside the family home to eat. However, it would be Junior’s last supper. At about 9:15 pm, shots shattered the night’s silence, and Junior, 22, lay dead in the living room a short distance from the balcony where he was believed to be having his meal. “After I gave them their food, I told them to make sure to wash their plates and I went to lay down on my bed,” Veronica Poleon, the deceased’s mother, told St. Lucia Times on Friday. “I woke up a little later. I checked my phone, and I saw it was a little after nine. I said to myself, ‘Let me go and lock the door,'” the grieving mother told us. “I sat up on the bed a for a while and then I heard pow, pow, pow and I said , ‘Bon dieu what happen there?'” she recalled. Veronica tried to compose herself before leaving her room, only to discover her son lying in the living room near the doorway. “I saw his body...