Gang related murders came back to the city this weekend after a more than three month break - and the first victim is a teenager. 19-year-old Raheem Faber was murdered on Friday night in what police are calling a gun deal gone bad. It happened just before midnight at the corner of Ebony and Mayflower streets, where Faber and four other young men were hanging out. Reports are that Faber who had been targeted was shot with a gun that he sold. His family believes that he was called out of his home that night to be executed. Cherisse Halsall Reports:
It's a parent's worst nightmare: a sharp knock at the door from what turns out to be the police followed by the quiet and somber revelation that your child has passed away killed by senseless gun violence.
That's the reality that Aisha Faber watched her parents endure on Friday night. This morning she told us how difficult it was to face her brother's body in the immediate aftermath of his sudden death.
Voice of: Aisha Faber, Sister of the Deceased
"Police came knocked on the door my, my father answered. He told my father what happened. I asked the police if everything is alright. He said no and began to cry. The Police took my father to the hospital after a short while me and my boy went to the hospital and he was already laid on the bed all you could see was his gold tooth his eyes were already twisted up in his head. He was shot to the head, the blood on the side, underneath his arm and all I could tell him was Raheem get up, Raheem get up, Raheem get up I asked him why didn't you listen my brother talk to you all I could do was shake him and hold his head and when I held his head my brother was already cold couldn't get up."
"They chanced my brother out of his life the shot that caught him in his head was the only thing that killed him. You talked to him, talked to him, you have friends out here but the friends that he calls friends aren't true friends, friends kills friends and people fail to understand this in the streets, people change they life but all they bad bwoy out yeah just keep calling you, calling you claiming that they're your friend but mein all we want is justice we want to know why, he didn't do anything to anyone but the people who knew him been through good times with him until they go back and forth all they did was just chance my brother since he was young those people have been chancing him and tried to take him lightly until he reached an age they got to find out who was the real person because they can't stop him."
But someone did stop him, and while his sister pointed to a bad group of friends. The cops are calling it like it is, explaining this morning that Faber likely met his end as a result of his involvement in gang activity.
Supt. Alejandro Cowo - OC, CIB
"We know that there's an issue between two of the gangs within that area, and we believe that this shooting had led to some previous misunderstanding that they had before."
Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police
"We had information that the shooting of Faber came about from the sale of a gun. And apparently, the same gun that he was selling, was what was used for his murder."
The family may not know about any gun deals but they told us that Raheem's death almost seemed like a setup.
Aisha Faber, Sister of the Deceased
"When his girl came yesterday she told us that there was a guy calling him, calling him so he had happened to respond to the call."
"But that person who called my brother that night should know who killed my brother. All of you are together and he's the only one the gunman came after he was the intended target. So they know what happened to my little brother and all I want to know is why?, Why they had to kill him, they didn't need to kill him."
Faber was no stranger to the law having previously been charged for the 2016 murder of 31-year-old Godfrey Hemsley at Yabra Ball Court on Cemetery lane.
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