And that?s the exact sentiment tonight from the family of Egbert Gordon, Jr., a 29-year-old mentally challenged young man who was cold-bloodedly shot in the face Tuesday afternoon at #37 Los Lagos.

For two days everybody in the old capital wanted to know: who was the young man who police killed at Los Lagos Tuesday evening?

At first police said that the young man who had locked himself into the house at #37 Los Lagos tried to attack them with a shiny weapon. They shot him in the face in self defense, they said. A day later, Wednesday, they said it was an old .25 caliber pistol that they found on the young man with a low haircut and the tattoos ?Love? and ?Jah Bless? on the body.

We knew little of the victim who remained as a John Doe for almost 48 hours ? except that Channel 7 last night revealed that the deceased, who had taken up living in the house at #37 Los Lagos, had re-arranged the house in a curious manner, and had a key on his person. We are not quite sure whether it was a key to the house. If it is, then we have to ask: who gave it to him?

Late this afternoon we found out that John Doe is actually Egbert Gordon, Jr. ? a graduate of Gwen Lizarraga High School and the Center for Employment Training. He was a certified electrician and a devout Rastafarian until he became mentally ill a few years ago.

The official police story goes like this:

They were responding to a burglary in progress around 4:00 Tuesday evening at Los Lagos ? a place where a number of burglaries have taken place over the last few months. They had to shoot open the lock of the door of the house, and when they entered they saw a man with ?an object in his hand,? and shot him in the face, causing his death.

Amandala spoke to an eyewitness who was at the yard of #37 Los Lagos just before the incident occurred.

According to the source, who requested anonymity, he and a friend went to chop the yard sometime around 10:00 Tuesday morning. As they were in the yard, his friend noticed that the burglar bars of one of the room windows had been tampered with. According to the source, about three pieces of the rods were broken, as if they had been sawed. The bars had been pushed back into place; three of the louvers of the window were broken.

The source and his friend thought that someone had burglarized the house. They decided to cut the grass, but as they were about to start cutting they suddenly heard a radio come on in the house. According to the source, he asked his friend if someone was now staying in the house. His friend said that the person who was renting the house had gone abroad and her items were still in the house. (The tenant is reportedly in Alaska.)

Our source?s friend then went and informed one of the sisters of the tenant, who allegedly reported the matter to the police. The sisters arrived at the house around 4:00 Tuesday evening, along with four armed police officers. They tried to open the door with a key, but were prevented from doing so.

The police, our sources say, identified themselves and requested that the person who was inside open the door. He refused, and police forced themselves into the house through a side door.

What really occurred inside the house is not clear. Eyewitnesses say they heard doors being kicked open in the house. According to our source, no less than 30 rounds were fired.

The police say that when they got into the house, they found that a bedroom door was also barricaded and they heard what appeared to be the sound of a gun being cranked. The police asked the person several times to exit the room. Police say they shot off the lock of the bedroom door and a male person was seen with an object in his hand, and as a result they had to shoot.

It wasn?t until last night?s newscast on Channel 7 that the Gordon family of Lords Bank realized that John Doe could be their Egbert Gordon ? not until they heard that the deceased man was in his mid 20s, had a low haircut, and ?One Love? and ?Jah Bless? tattooed on the body.

Gordon?s father, Egbert Gordon, Sr., was the one who identified his son at the morgue this afternoon. Egbert, Sr. said his son was shot for no reason, because he has been a mentally ill person for over six years. He said that his son was deliberately shot.

?They didn?t have to kill him,? he said.

According to Gordon, Sr., the family has been trying to get Egbert into a mental institution for some time now, but he refused and stopped taking food from his mother.

His older brother, Glenford Williams, told us that on Tuesday, September 20, they tried to catch Egbert because they noticed that his mental illness was getting severe. Williams said that Egbert pulled the machete that he usually used to guard himself and chopped him, Glenford, on the right hand.

Williams said that in an attempt to detain Egbert, he wanted police to press charges against him, but that did not work out, because Egbert disappeared.

The family is firm in saying that Gordon did not own a gun or use one. The only weapons he ever used was a machete and a hammer, said the family, and those items were taken away from him after he had chopped his brother.

The family says that he was not dangerous to anyone in the village, because he feared being taken to the Rockview Hospital, where he had been admitted before.

Williams believed that Glenford sought refuge at #37 Los Lagos to elude his family ? the place where he was ultimately killed. A post-mortem examination by the police pathologist is scheduled for tomorrow morning.

Police Commissioner Gerald Westby has reportedly ordered a full and expedient investigation into this incident. Head of Internal Affairs, Superintendent Robert Mariano, has begun the investigations, say police.

Meanwhile, Egbert and Patricia Gordon mourn the loss of their son, convinced that police did not have to kill him.