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Convinced that her missing son Omario Williams was murdered, Francine Tomlinson said she is appealing to residents of a Kingston community to assist her in locating his remains.

Williams, who was 17 when he disappeared, went missing on September 17, 2021.

“My son was innocent and persons reportedly hear him crying for help and know what happened. In September, we went there and was asking for help to find him and everyone mouth was shut. I just want to know where my son was buried so I can get closure and put him to rest properly,” she said.

Reports from the Stadium Gardens police in St Andrew are that at 3:15 p.m., Williams was last seen on Eastwood Park Road in the parish. All efforts to locate him have proven futile. A relative said that when she spoke to him on the day he disappeared, he told her that he had received a call from someone he knew in the Kingston community that he should visit.

“He said someone was going to send a car to pick him up in Half-Way Tree. I told him that I was going to come with him and he told me where he was going. He knew people down there. He sent me a please call me later and asked if I had left out yet. While he was talking to me someone asked him who he was speaking to and he told them who I was,” she said.

The relative said that Williams sent her a second message to confirm that he reached his destination but when she tried calling him, his phone rang without answer. Concerned, she visited the community.

“Everybody said they didn’t know him when I showed the picture. It was just one person who said they saw him but persons were looking at him a way so he stopped talking. I reached out to the person who knew him but they said he didn’t see him,” she said.

A few weeks later the family said persons from the community told them that they saw Williams being beaten by a group of men.

“Persons said gunmen were drawing him and he was crying for help. Dem say dem lock up in a dem house and everybody shut dem mouth. We heard that they shoot him and buried him in a makeshift grave,” the relative said.

The family said they did not immediately report what they heard to the police because they did not want the persons responsible for Williams’ disappearance to hurt him. However, they eventually shared everything with investigators, but now feel it may be too late.