MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Jean Wesner Saint-Jean worked as a cashier at McDonald’s. The 19-year-old Miami Senior High School student was saving to move to Texas to go to college. A killer in southwest Miami-Dade County recently ended his plans.
The shooting that killed Saint-Jean was about 7:50 p.m., on Nov. 17. He was walking at Southwest 173rd Street and 103rd Avenue near the West Perrine Park. Doctors at Jackson South Medical Center pronounced him dead.
Mona Saint-Jean is one of his seven siblings. The Haitian-American family was grieving on Tuesday at St Fort’s Funeral Home & Cremation in North Miami Beach. She said he was a positive young man who didn’t like conflict.
“There was not one time any of us had an argument with him,” she said.
She and other members of Saint-Jean’s family are also asking the public to help Miami-Dade detectives to solve his murder.
“It’s very frustrating because we don’t have any piece of information,” Mona Saint-Jean said. “We only know that he is deceased.”
Leonie Hermantin, a Haitian community advocate in South Florida, said Saint-Jean had defied all odds while growing up in South Florida and someone needs to speak up for him and his family.
“To have that promise shut down by cowards and to have no one from the community step up and say, ‘We saw what happened!’ This is what hurts,” Hermantin said about the need for public tips on the crime.
Hermantin and detectives are asking anyone with information about the murder who wants to remain anonymous to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. Hermantin is also asking anyone who wants to help the family to cover the cost of the funeral expenses to contact the management of St Fort’s Funeral Home & Cremation.