‘Your heart was so big and pure’: Loved ones mourn man killed in family dispute
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Friends expressed utter shock when it was revealed that Allan A’Travis Pratt was one of two men who died in a domestic dispute on Tuesday.
“It’s so surreal,” Keesha Johnson , a friend of the victim lamented in a social media post. “You brought so much life to us all…Never a dull moment.”
Pratt, nicknamed “Bobo” was chopped to the neck with a cutlass by a brother-in-law later identified by police as Renaldo Bowleg, 42, while at their Mutton Fish Drive residence, and died later in hospital, police said.
When police, prompted by a dispute, arrived at the residence, they met the 38-year-old man on the outside with a wound to the neck.
They soon found another man lying lifeless in the front room of the house.
Pratt reportedly descended from Long Island.
Shavado Gibson said, “I remember your unforgettable laugh growing up.”
Andrea Coleby, a friend, remembers him as “most fun and loveable person you could ever meet.”
Jacqueline Knowles described him as “one of Long Island’s most humble, positive young men.”
Police have not revealed a motive for the killings. But the deaths could push the murder count to 104 for the year. Police must now determine what role self-defense played in the unfortunate incident.
“You didn’t deserve what happened to you,” a cousin Krystal Hepburn said. “Your heart so big and pure…You were gentle but also a protector and a hardworker.”
Pratt was often referred to as ‘Chef Bobo,’ because he loved to cook.
“How can you be taken in such a manner that was not fitting for who you were in my eyes?” Hepburn asked.
Authorities are investigating the incident.
