19-Year-Old Gets Life Sentence For Execution Style Murder In Clarendon

A 19-year-old was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder on Monday in the Clarendon Circuit Court.

Convicted is Shevanne Harris for the execution style murder of a businessman at his cook shop in Hayes district last February.

Harris will be eligible for parole after 21 years. He was also sentenced to five years for illegal possession of a firearm and three years for illegal possession of ammunition by Justice Courtney Day. Both sentences are to run consecutively to the murder sentence.

Reports are Barrington Herdsman was shot in his head outside his business place inside the Newton Plaza. His wife who is the sole eyewitness, in her statement disclosed that on the day in question her husband, after counting the day’s sales, went and sat outside on a stool. The witness, who was inside the cook shop, said shortly after she saw a man enter the business place and looked around. He then removed a firearm from his waistband and walked out of the shop towards her husband.

She said that on reaching her husband the man pointed the gun in the back of her husband’s head and fired several shots before running in the direction of Vere Technical High School.

Herdsman was rushed to May Pen Hospital where he was pronounced dead.