| …three years after father died similarly in Kurupung RiverA distraught Lorine Mc ClennonA mother’s search for her two sons who left their Third Street, Silvertown, Wismar, home Sunday Afternoon unknown to anyone,NFL Jerseys China Online, ended tragically yesterday.The body of the younger of the two, 14-year-old Akeemo Fredericks, was fished out of the Demerara River, in the vicinity of the River View Hotel ‘landing’on Burnham Drive Wismar by a public spirited citizen, around 9:00 hours yesterday morning.Some four hours later the body of his 16-year-old sibling, Andre, was retrieved about a quarter mile further downstream.Andre, the third of seven children for his mother, Lorraine McClennon, and her eldest son, was a student of the Wisburg Annexe on Burnham Drive, Wismar while Akeemo attended the Wisburg Secondary School at Wisroc.The children’s distraught mother said that she discovered the two boys missing shortly after returning home from church around 14:00 hrs on Sunday.She said that she then inquired of her four other children who were at home at the time, of their brothers’ whereabouts, but they had no ‘clue’.“I then went out and started looking for them. I went to a few friends and neighbours, then I went to the basketball court, and by the spring where they would sometimes go and bathe- but no sign of them.“I then decided to go check by the river, and after checking a little while, we find their clothes on the bridge by River View Hotel,Brad Richards Red Wings Jersey,” McClennon lamented as she broke down in tears.All of Akeemo’s clothes were found, but Andre’s pants was missing.McClennon’s 17-year-old daughter, Cassandra, who had accompanied her mother on the search for her two younger brothers, said that her mother began running and hollering after finding their clothes.She went to the Wismar Police Station where she made a report. The clothes which were wet were also lodged at the station.A frantic search was subsequently launched by neighbours, family and friends for the boys along the river’s edge, but that was soon aborted with the fast approaching darkness.The search was resumed yesterday morning at 5:30 hours by a few neighbours and friends. Akeemo’s body was spotted floating not far from where he was last seen.Upon receiving the news, Akeem’s mother bolted out of her yard,Fernando Rodney Jersey, and ran wailing down the street.She collapsed and had to be helped by friends and neighbours to the riverside.Akeemo’s body was quickly retrieved from the water by a man, who was later rebuked by the police for doing so, after they arrived almost an hour later.Lorraine McClennon sobbed inconsolably as Akeemo’s body was pulled out of the water, and she had to be restrained by persons as she veered dangerously in the path of upcoming vehicles on Burnham Drive.McClennon could be heard asking,NFL Jerseys From China, “Why, why?” She said that the two boys were not always obedient.“Is disobedience cause this. Ya’ll didn’t hear to me- now ya’ll gone and left me,” she wailed.By this time a huge crowd had converged on the scene. More wails and cries rent the air as close relatives and friends viewed the body.Many persons expressed surprise at the double tragedy. Neither of the boys could swim, according to their mother.McClennon also said that the boys never went to the river, so she could not understand what could have incited them to do so on the fateful day.One bystander said that he had been attracted by noises at the riverside on Sunday afternoon, and when he looked, he saw the elder Fredericks boy sitting on the River View ‘landing’, with his clothes on his right shoulder.The man said upon closer observation, he noticed that the boys, six in all, were all from the Silvertown area.Yesterday, Akeemo’s body was left lying in the sun for almost three hours, as family members contemplated what to do, since the Wismar Hospital Mortuary is not functioning.Ice was finally sourced and placed on the body, which was later taken to the Mortuary. More ice had to be bought to keep the body there according to reports.After Akeemo’s body was found, persons still hung around the vicinity, hoping that Andre’s body would soon be found. Within two hours of the first crowd dispersing, another one soon converged at Dutchie’s boat landing, after news spread that Andre’s body was sighted close by.He was soon picked up by a private boat and brought to shore,Throwback Jerseys, where an impatient crowd jostled each other to get a glimpse.However, unlike the case with his brother, Andre was soon placed in a vehicle and taken to the Wismar mortuary, after porters had washed off the mud.The boys’ grieving mother said she is at her wits end as she is a single parent who sells snacks and rears chickens for a living.The death of her two sons, at one blow, is a real trial of her faith, according to the woman’s Christian sisters who turned up at her home to console her.Lorraine Mcclennon is left with her two sons, eleven year old Anphany, and five year old Akeel. Her two daughters Carencia and Cassandra are nineteen and seventeen years old respectively.McClennon lost her reputed husband in similar fashion,Cheap Sports Jerseys, almost three years to the date. According to reports, the man who was a diver, drowned in the Kurupung River, after a tree fell on top of him, pinning him in the water.(Enid Joaquin) |
