Home intruder’s father apologises to prison officer who killed him

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

The fa­ther of an al­leged home in­trud­er who was shot and killed by a prison of­fi­cer in Freeport on Thurs­day night has apol­o­gised to the of­fi­cer, say­ing he har­bours no re­sent­ment but can­not un­der­stand how his on­ly son, Javon Hamil­ton, be­came in­volved in a home in­va­sion.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Vic­tor Hamil­ton broke down in tears as he re­flect­ed on the death of his son, whom he af­fec­tion­ate­ly called “Pa­pi”. He said the prison of­fi­cer is a dis­tant rel­a­tive, mak­ing the tragedy even more dif­fi­cult for the fam­i­ly to process.