Published 4 February 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Police: Shaquille Pemberton died of natural causes
Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 4, 2018 – Police said Saturday they have ruled out foul play in the death of 23-year-old Shaquille Pemberton of New Road, after an autopsy showed that he died of natural causes.
Police had issued a statement hours after the body was found on Saturday January 23, that stated it “appears to have injuries to the chest.”
“Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Valery Alexandrov, carried out a post mortem on the body of the late Shaquille Pemberton on Saturday (February 03). Dr. Alexandrov ruled that death was due to acute pulmonary failure due to haemorrhagic viral myocarditis and pneumonia,” the police statement said Saturday February 3, 2018.
The body was discovered by a passer-by who called the St. Kitts and Nevis Fire and Rescue Services, who then informed the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force.
Shaquille’s father, Nigel Arthurton, a local businessman, told relatives and friends his son was “brutally murdered.”
“We need justice. He never do anything. He was kidnapped Friday and tortured and found behind the airport…” said a family member in a posting send to Washington-based Nevisian blogger Everton “Obi” Elliott.
The family member said Pemberton was living in New Road with family members.
The conclusion of the pathologist leaves the number of murders for 2018 at two, which occurred in Nevis last month.
19-year-old Cleon Browne was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he walked along the road in Rawlins Village, Gingerland, Nevis on January 17.
On January 21, the body of 45-year-old Shirley Dawn Morton was found at the home of her boyfriend Wayne “Spyer” Chapman, who has been arrested and charged.
The Federation last year recorded 23 murders. There were 31 murders in 2016; 28 in 2015; 21 in 2014; 21 in 2013 and 18 in 2012.
Photo 1 – Shaquille Pemberton
Photo 2 – Cleon Browne
Photo 3 – Shirley Dawn Morton
