BON AIR MURDER FOLLOW UP

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While police continue to search for the killers of teenagers, Anim Persad and Olun Jones who were shot on Tuesday night, the family of Olun Jones said he was a talented artist and a star in the making. The relatives spoke with Express reporter Gyasi Gonzales outside the Forensic Sciences Centre today and Mark Bassant has this report.

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00:00 Olon Jones had a natural talent for music but his blossoming singing career

00:05 was cut short when killers shot him and 15-year-old Ann Impesad outside this

00:10 shop at the corner of Skylar, Crescent and Emerald Circular in Bornhair

00:13 Gardens on Tuesday night just after 10 p.m.

00:17 He loved music. Olon loved music. He was so enchanted by his music and about getting, you know, in his words, he wants a

00:28 bus. He wanted to make it on the stage and he sang his songs and said that in the lyrics as well.

00:35 Olon's relatives dispelled reports by residents in the area that he was not

00:39 cared for. They said for a long time after his parents death he was taken

00:44 care of by them and only recently had gone his own way. It seemed like he

00:48 didn't have family and he didn't have love. It wasn't that. It definitely wasn't that.

00:53 He was so angry when we heard the news and when he didn't come back. The relatives said Olon

00:59 seemed to have turned a new leaf and with the help of many others went to

01:03 Mylat but at some point contrary to a claim by residents that he had graduated

01:08 he left the program abruptly. Him not returning to Mylat when he was supposed

01:13 to. I would have spoken to him and I said Olon you're throwing away your future.

01:17 You know you need to go back in. Mylat wanted to come back.

01:21 Right and he said he had to his reason for not going back is because he said he

01:25 had to see about his his house. The abandoned house that he was talking about.

01:30 Relatives said that Olon was making a living selling coconut water near the

01:34 shop in order to try and rebuild his once abandoned home on Kuku Drive and he

01:39 seemed a bit impatient that his singing career was not taking off fast enough.

01:43 Relatives said they had been hearing other things about Jones and were upset

01:47 that he had posed with a gang sign on the cover of one of his upcoming albums.

01:51 This is my brother when he was preparing to do the cover for his album and they

01:57 were taking photo shoots right. Yeah. He's holding up the sick sign. He didn't want

02:02 to be affiliated with negativity and the whatever it is but he was seeing that the

02:07 the artists and them in the area were being promoted and produced by these

02:11 these persons. Meanwhile the uncle of Olon Impasar told TV6 News that his

02:15 nephew wanted to become a farmer and cultivate land that his parents owned.

02:20 Investigators said he had to make any arrests in the killings. Mark Basant, TV6 News.

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