Harrichand killed while preaching against gun violence

According to his adopted mother, Iesha Jackman Archer, the 22-year-old man was inspired to go from block to block, preaching against violence.

Archer, who on Monday spoke to reporters at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, is now taking up her son’s mantle and calling on gunmen to stop the violence.

“These people don’t want to stop this killing!” said the mother.

“I forgive the people that did this to him, but what goes around comes around. Revenge is God’s own and His only.” Archer told Newsday her son was a witness to a murder last year.

He was questioned, but did not give up the killer, and was himself locked up in relation to the crime. Harrichand was released from prison about two months ago, but he came back a changed man, his mother claimed.

“He said he got a vision that told him to go to the criminals and tell them to stop killing each other. He would start going in places that he should not go because he is a Muslim – areas that I and all would not dare go – and preaching to the gunmen,” she said. At about 11.15 on Saturday last, gunshots were heard along St Paul Street, and Block Eight, in Laventille. Residents called the police and when they responded they found the bullet riddled body of Harrichand lying on the roadway.