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Cops Shot Him in The Face, Jordy Gives His Side Of The Story
posted (December 3, 2019)
25 year old Jordy Usher is in the Western Regional Hospital tonight, after police shot him in the face this weekend, allegedly after he ran from the cops. The bullet is lodged in in his face and has caused swelling of his lower brain.

According to the cops, on Saturday night, they spotted a motorcycle in Santa Elena Town, and it was heading to Esperanza Village. The officers realized that the motorcycle did not have any lights, it had no license plates, and the driver and passenger were not wearing any helmets. The cops say that Usher was fleeing and resisting arrest and that the shot fired in his direction was merely a warning.

Usher's mother says her son had his hands in the air, and there was no reason to shoot a man signalling his surrender.

Jordy says he remains in a state of disbelief over the events of Saturday night, as the sergeant in question is a family friend and someone he would never have believed would shoot him.

Here is more from both Jordy Usher and his mother Margarita Hyde.

Margarita Hyde, Mother of Jordy Usher
"They are saying that he dropped that they crashed into a culvert, we don't even have culverts around there because when it's raining we flood out. No culverts are around there because when it's raining we flood out, there are no culvert's around there. Another thing. There was no struggle because my son wasn't close to him when he shot him."

"I work with the police, everybody knows that. I'm an honest person and he himself knows that if my son does something out there he can come and complain home because I won't tolerate foolishness. He didn't have to shoot him."

Jordy Usher, Gunshot Victim
"I didn't have any type of incident with him at all. When he comes around, he socializes with the family and I would come and hail him as a respectable youth, because I am young compared to him. He is friends with my father. Other than that I don't have anything towards him, but the he was dealing with me like he had something against me, because he was cursing me. He told me to turn around. When he told me to turn around I was facing my house and so I took my 2 hands and raise it in the air and I turned around. As I turned around I watch him in his face. When I saw that it was him, I acknowledge it was him/ I said are you alright Mr. Jones and I turn and looked at my cousin, because 2 more policemen had my cousin on the ground roughing him up and that is when I heard the shot went off."

Margarita Hyde, Mother of Jordy Usher
"It's just given me a different perspective about police, A totally different, that's why sometimes it's like what I say, and what I tell everybody I thank God that he's alive I thank God that I was able to witness that he could have made it home because it would have been just another random murder out there that they would have justified that he was resisting arrest and that was why they shot him."

"They are saying that my son cycle never have on the license plate, my son no have lights. I personally bought the lights for my son cycle. The license plate I have pictures to prove that the license plate is on it and if it's not on they took it off because the same night they took the cycle and carried it."

Jordy Usher, Gunshot Victim
"I'm just surprised especially from the police officer, the policeman who shot me, because it's someone that I know personally. He told me to freeze. I put up my hands and I turned around because he told me to freeze that's what you're supposed to do. The man shot me advanced to me two steps closer and made two more attempts fortunately the gun didn't go off because if the gun had gone off I wouldn't be here."

"They weren't chasing me, they made after me when I was getting close to my house on a feeder road. That was when they made after me and I didn't know that it was police because then they didn't have any lights, they didn't have any lights on the truck. It looked like a regular vehicle coming behind me. But then they made two attempts to knock me down off the motorcycle, that was when I realized that it was police and that's why I tried to make it to my house because this isn't the first time police made an attempt on my life. I had already gone through an incident that they had to deal with through internal affairs, where they had attacked me with a machete and hit me up and all kinds of things. They were about to shoot me in front of people the same way. So this is not the first time this happened nor the second time."

"All I wanted was for my mom to be aware to see what was happening, because the last time was the same thing - they attacked me with my aunts. If my aunts and other weren't there, they would have chopped me up and shoot me right there. They ask me to make a report to Internal Affairs and nothing came out of that. Now this time they shot me. So what will happen now? I fear my life now. It's like I can't live in my own country."

"At the moment I'm not sure. It's not a fragment. It's actually the bullet still in my face. So now I have to go for a surgery which will cost me lots of money to cut that out and then apparently half of the structure of my face had gotten destroyed, so I will need to put it a plate and screws in my face."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Tell me about those moments when you had your hands up did you feel that you were going to be killed in front of your mother?"

Jordy Usher, Gunshot Victim
"Without a doubt, because my back was turned towards he and I turned around to watch on my cousin and then I heard bang!"

In a press release on Monday police said that they quote "regret the unfortunate incident where a citizen received a gunshot injury following a police pursuit."

Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has ordered a full criminal investigation into the matter.

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