Budding deejay, friend killed in confrontation with cops

On Monday night, Paul Newell listened intently as his son Giovanni, a budding deejay, told him that he believed his big break was extremely near.

Just hours later though, the dreams of Giovanni, who goes by the moniker Gio Don, were shattered as he and another man were killed by police during a reported confrontation.

“Mi and him outside until about 1 a.m. because him say him have to find a hit tune fi make mi and him mada left out ya. Now him can’t find the hit because him dead. My son was a loving yute and him was just an entertainer who a look a big break and dem stop him inna him track,” Newell said.