HOMICIDE in FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD: 48 Hours Later

HYANNIS- Friday – General Patton Drive – under 48 hours later small children were out playing in the street.

Landscaping trucks parked, workers mowing lawns, weeding… adults watching over their kids.

Young girls and boys played catch, walked their puppies, and rode their tricycles.  A six year old girl with a baseball mitt cautiously chased a wild toss from her dad across the street.  Feet away from their summer play area a house clearly torn apart from gunfire. 

Inside that home – Wednesday at 11:30 – young Jacques Sellers, age 18, just a baby, a summer visitor who reportedly took a nearby cleaning job, lay on the living room floor next to a sofa, mortally wounded from a bullet which tore through his upper body… “he was not the intended target” is the current word on the street.

Meanwhile, Barnstable Police Officers Mark Delaney and Brian Murray walked the street reaching out to neighbors in an effort to “stabilize” tension and anxiety. 

A Barnstable Police Mobile Command Center remains on scene.

Across Bearses Way on Fresh Holes Road Barnstable Police have set up a second mobile command unit, cruisers and police motorcycles highly visible in both neighborhoods.

Neighbors, very leery about getting caught in the middle, confidentially expressed sorrow for the victim’s family and fear for their own.

Barnstable Police and Massachusetts State Troopers are working on leads, still searching for the murder weapon.

Jacques Sellers, survived by family and loved ones back in North Carolina, was just looking forward to life.  Hyannis News briefly spoke with family members here looking for answers… “He was a good kid,” according to his Aunt, overwhelmed by the suddenness of it all.