My brother is no bandit! Leave him alone – sisters of gunshot victim

Latoya and Shunda Browne, sisters of gunshot victim Alwyn ‘Bunny’ Browne, are asking persons to desist from spreading hurtful rumours about their brother.

Following Alwyn’s shooting on Wednesday, May 4, at Monkey Hill (Upper New Montrose), an article appeared online stating that Alwyn was shot when a Monkey Hill resident, who was being attacked, opened fire on a band of robbers with his licensed firearm.{{more}}

But his sisters say that their brother was not involved in any robbery and that he was wounded by men who wanted to kill him.

Expressing her concerns about what she considers “lies”, the Ottley Hall resident said that when her brother was picked up and brought to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH), there was no evidence that he was involved in any wrongdoing.

“If they saying he went to rob, then you need things to rob; they did not meet him with no gun, no mask, nothing, so why people saying that?” stressed Latoya.

She added from her brother’s bedside at the MCMH, “he was trying to make his way home and this is what happened and I don’t like how people saying that he went to rob. I just want the rumours stop.”

Latoya said that the police have already questioned her 16-year-old brother and he has no idea who shot him, so therefore nobody has been arrested.

“…He don’t know who shoot him; it was mask man,” said Latoya, who noted that her brother was making his way home because the same evening there was gunplay in Rose Place and her brother did not think it was safe to be in that area.

“He run from that and look what happen,” said Latoya.

The angry sister said that she uses Facebook as a way to relax and because of the negative things that people are saying on the social media site, she is refraining from surfing Facebook.

“I don’t like it (what people saying), Facebook is my comfort and because of the way people getting on, I not going on. I just trying to be strong and hold the faith for my brother,” said Latoya, who revealed that on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, her sister Alvisha ‘Micey’ Browne was shot and killed in Ottley Hall. Alvisha was 19 and had three children at the time of her death.

“We got no justice for Alvisha, no justice serve for that either and now people throwing talks for us and the talking making me vex, but I does think about my children and I love my brother,” said Latoya.

She stressed that all she wants is for people to stop accusing her brother of things he knows nothing about.

“God giving us we satisfaction. The table would turn, we not doing nothing, is God going to do it. How does they sleep at night, all the gunmen who leaving parents moaning for their children?” asked Latoya, who described gun-toting criminals as, “the vipers of the generation”.

She opined that the serious gun crimes are being committed by young people between 20 and 25, “they are who getting on with these things”.

Shunda, Alwyn’s other sister, said that she “feels sad” about the situation that her brother is in.

“I trying to be strong for him. I doing my best to support him in this troubling time. I love my brother and when I heard that he got shot, I felt like I was going crazy. I going to try my best to make sure my brother is okay,” said Shunda who noted that she is closer to her brother than she was to Alvisha.

She said that the crime situation in the country is getting out of hand and the youths “need to hold their heads up and stay strong and don’t turn to violence”.

Commenting, Alwyn, not much for words said, “I can’t study them things right now. I just want to get better”.

Alwyn, last week told SEARCHLIGHT that he was on his way home to Ottley Hall using a shortcut through Monkey Hill when masked gunmen opened fire on him. A bullet hit below his mouth and exited through his chin, while another projectile caught him on his upper right arm.