The hurt of losing the son she loved dearly was evident in the voice of a Portland mother as she searches for the clues to unravel the puzzle as to why criminals stabbed her youngest child to death.
Dead is 23-year-old Dwight Robinson, otherwise called OJ or Blacks, a barber of Buckfield in Ocho Rios, St Ann.
Robinson’s body, covered with blood, was found in a house in the area where he was a tenant on Tuesday morning, January 11.
Based on investigations by police, it appeared unknown assailants gained entry to Robinson’s room by removing some of the window blades. It appears Robinson fought against the criminals but was stabbed multiple times.
His lifeless body was found in his room by another tenant and the landlord.
HUMBLE MAN
Robinson’s mother, Hyacinth Kirkland-Robinson is finding it difficult to understand why anyone would want to kill her son, who she said was fun-loving, caring, quiet, humble and not talkative.
“If him (Dwight Robinson) did sick and dead mi wouldn’t feel so. But fi know them shorten him life. Him barely live nuh life yet. Him say he would tek care a mi. That nah go come true again,” Mrs Robinson said, while breaking down and crying, in an interview with The Times last Thursday.
Dwight Robinson was the last of four children for her and her husband, Winston. Robinson and had lived with them in Buff Bay Valley in Portland. He had moved to Ocho Rios close to four years ago and was working as a barber.
He had an eleven-month-old baby girl with his girlfriend, who resided elsewhere in a community close to Ocho Rios, according to Mrs Robinson. The baby would be celebrating her birthday in February.
“Every month end I send money for him (Dwight Robinson) to help him pay the rent. Nuh really want him have the whole heap a stress with having to take care of the baby,” Mrs Robinson reflected.
THE LIFE CHANGING CALL
Mrs Robinson worked in Kingston and got the sad news from her other son, sometime after 7 a.m. last Tuesday. That son, Oniel resided in Buckfield in Ocho Rios at another house.
Mrs Robinson explained that she missed the call from her son, but she finally got in touch with him. “Oneil say to mi ‘Mommy where are you. Yuh eat from morning?’ But is like him never want talk to me, because him gone silent. So mi say to him ‘Oniel yuh still there?’ Him then say ‘Mommy mi have sad news fi tell yuh.’ But him never want tell mi. So mi ask him ‘What is it?’ Then him tell mi Dwight dead,” she explained.
She said the news was so shocking to her that she had to be consoled by her boss.
Mrs Robinson further explained that her boss chartered a taxi to take her straight to Ocho Rios.
She said that she later met with her son, Oniel and her daughter at the Ocho Rios police station. She said that after an officer finished speaking to her children, she enquired what had happened to her son, Dwight.
“The officer said that based on observations they (the unknown assailants) attacked him. The officer said he did not know if it was robbery,” Mrs Robinson added.
However, two of her son’s cellphones have been missing since the attack. She said that one of the phones has been ringing without an answer.
HE WAS STABBED
Mrs Robinson pointed out that she further learnt from the officer that the men seemed to have removed some of the window blades and gained their entrance into the room.
She said that she had also been informed that her son had about five stab wounds. It is not sure if a fish gun that was found outside near to the house was used as the weapon to inflict the stab wounds. However, blood was found on it and it has been taken for testing.
“It really rough. Family members really taking it hard. It is like a shock for all of us. Even where him work as a barber in Ocho Rios, them nuh know why anybody would want to kill OJ (Dwight Robinson). We don’t know why and it look like them go to go kill him. Him never complain to no one,” Mrs Robinson said, sadly.
DOG DIED
It was only on Sunday, January 9 that Robinson had been dealing with loss of his dog, called War or War Head, which had been his pet dog for 11 years.
Mrs Robinson said that she awoke 8 o’clock that Sunday morning to find the dog sick. She had contacted her son to inform him that the dog was ill, but her son told her to not let him die.
When she called her son at work at around 12 noon, she told him that his dig had died.
“Him say ‘Bwoy mummy it better yuh neva did tell me.’ He said that his eyes were full of water and him can’t finish work for the rest of the day, so he was going home,” she recollected.
Mrs Robinson said that she communicated with her son by texting him on Whatsapp for the rest of the day. She said that she also continued to text him on Monday as well. That was the last time, she would communicate with her son.
“Mi nuh know when mi a go stop cry. Mi miss him so much. Him nuh trouble nobody. Him nuh talk much. Even if we a text, him we send mi three text, because him nuh text much. Now mi nuh have no one to text. Why me? Oh God why me?” She cried.
For Dwight’s father, Winston Robinson, he said that he was “trying to cope” with the death of his son, but he said that it was not easy.
In the meantime, Mrs Robinson said that she is holding on to her faith in God to get over the death of her son. She hopes that the killers are caught.
“If them find someone mi wi feel better, but if them nuh find anyone it ago worse pan me. That somebody just nuh fi go Scot free. Mi just a pray them give up themselves. A lot of people praying,” she added.
