Paul Nelson Jr, A former Cornwall College student, who migrated to the United States more than six years ago, was shot and killed in Lauderhill, Florida, while attending a New Year’s Eve party.
He was killed just before 11 p.m. on Sunday outside a house in Lauderhill, an area which is home to several Jamaicans and Caribbean nationals.
The Lauderhill Police Department reported that they were called to a report of shooting and found Nelson suffering from several gunshot wounds.
It’s understood that he was among a group of friends attending a New Year’s Eve party when a man approached him and opened fire.
The shooter, described by overseas law enforcements as black, slender build and standing 6 feet tall, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, managed to flee the scene.
When the Western Mirror contacted his father, Paul Nelson, a popular Red Cap Porter at the Sangster International Airport who resides in Montego Bay, he was at a loss for words. “Words can’t explain the pain I am feeling”.
“He left this country six, seven years ago and to lose him in that fashion is really gut-wrenching”, he added.
The deceased Nelson reportedly died, leaving a pregnant girlfriend who is said to be carrying twins.
Sad…my heart wrench for his unborn children. Death was probably over something stupid.
The suspect dem say went to high school with him smh
So people know who the killer is and not reporting it to the police? Where are his friends that witness the shooting inside one of the Triplex? The yute was only 26 years old. Look like a Mobay ting….
He is already in jail
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/broward/lauderhill-police-arrest-man-in-new-year-s-eve-killing
Wow. Feel it for him parents,woman and unborn children. Dat rough
Dats why mi stay weh from crowded places and events, you just never know when shitz going to pop off.
All the best to his unborn children and girlfriend.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article192827544.html
Lauderhill police alerted the public on Monday that they were searching for the gunman who killed Paul Nelson at a New Year’s Eve party.
On Tuesday, cops say, they found him in Miramar sitting on his porch, which once was Nelson’s porch.
Police asked Shevon Salmon, who was sitting on the porch at 8661 Wilshire Dr. in Lauderhill, when was the last time he saw Nelson. He replied: The day before, when he went with Nelson, 26, to a party.
Did he know who shot Nelson? Yes, Salmon said, according to police.
Who shot Paul? “I did,” he replied, police said.
That earned Salmon, 24, a Miranda warning and eventually a spot in Broward County Jail on one count of premeditated murder.
The arrest report shed no light on why Salmon (nicknamed “Natty”) shot Nelson (nicknamed “Mafia”), who held a New York driver’s license. Salmon said he’s known Nelson since high school in Jamaica.
Salmon was in the group Nelson dropped in with at 5311 NW 17th Court, Apt. A, with a few friends, including Salmon. They found out the person living there would be hosting a New Year’s Eve party. According to the arrest report, by 10:30 p.m., Nelson had plopped on the living room couch with a headache when Salmon walked in from the backyard and shot him.
Before Salmon could escape, he and witnesses told police, other partygoers took away the .38 revolver Salmon said he used to shoot Nelson. They didn’t think to detain him, however — he caught a cab back to his Miramar home. That’s where police found him just over a day later when they went by the Wilshire Drive house.