Kerby Revelus Does Birthdays Wrong
March 30, 2009 by Jaded
Samantha, Bianca, and Saraphina Revelus
Milton, MA–Samantha ‘Princesse’ Revelus, 17, was on the honor roll and heading to UMass Boston in the fall. It was just five years ago that Samantha and her younger sister, 9-year-old Saraphina moved to the states from Haiti. Not a typical teen, Samantha put boys and romance on hold, focusing on her studies instead. ‘She would just come home and do homework and go to church on SundaySunday reviews
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Bianca Revelus just turned five on FridayFriday reviews
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The massacre took place within minutes. Shortly before 5:00 p.m. SaturdaySaturday reviews, Samantha called 911 and told dispatchers she had been wounded by her brother and that she was dying. She had been stabbed numerous times. Saraphina then took the phone and continued to speak with 911 dispatchers, telling them her brother was attacking her sister. Just moments later, the first officer arrived at the home, heard screaming, and kicked in the door.
The scene that unfolded in front of him will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. He entered the apartment just in time to witness Kerby decapitate 5-year-old Bianca. ‘The assailant was armed with a knife and had the 5-year-old by the neck and severed her head immediately,’ Chief Richard Wells said. Immediately after, Kerby took off after Saraphina, chasing the frightened child through the apartment. Cornering her in a bedroom, he began stabbing and slashing the child. Samantha’s lifeless body lay nearby.
By then, a total of four cops were on the scene, ordering Kerby to drop his weapon. He didn’t comply…two officers opened fire and shot him dead. Saraphina was rushed out of the home and taken to Boston Medical Center suffering multiple stab wounds to her stomach, hands, and legs. She is recovering with her parents by her side and is expected to survive.
The question now is, why? Police said that ‘Kerby had been involved in a fistfight Friday night with a next-door neighbor, a conflict that precipitated the violent knife attack on his three younger sisters.’ It’s possible that Samantha was concerned over the level of violence Kerby had displayed in the fight and voiced her concerns to her parents. She was Kerby’s first target. We may never know the twisted reasoning behind his violent attack, and he certainly isn’t talking.
Friends and relatives say that Kerby had been depressed in recent weeks because the weapons charge on his record was preventing him from finding a job. He ‘felt like he was nothing.’ He had recently been released from prison following a gun charge in 2007. Police also responded to the home in 2004 after Revelus reportedly punched a woman living there. A neighbor revealed that Kerby had been acting strange lately–‘waxing philosophical about the meaning of life, telling weird stories, even stealing a pair of his underwear.’ Kerby was often seen walking down the street, talking to himself, and drinking from a bottle in a brown bag.
Jessica Revelus said her parents, Regine and Vronze, were at work when the attack occurred. The childrens’ grandmother, Philomene Dorvil, was tending to laundry in the basement when the massacre unfolded. Regine is beside herself, Jessica said. ‘She is just like, ‘I can’t believe I have to bury three kids.’ ‘ Vronze was especially attached to his youngest, Bianca. Jessica said Kerby and Bianca were her biological siblings. Their parents adopted Samantha and Saraphina and brought them from Haiti around 2004. Saraphina’s father is the nephew of Samatha’s father, who died in Haiti.
The first four cops on the scene were treated for shock and trauma by doctors at Milton Hospital. ‘The toughest thing is the innocent victims who were killed,’ Chief Wells said. ‘But the fact that they were there to see it in technicolor – it’s a lot for a human being to carry. No matter what commendations they get, it’ll be a while before they realize the good that they did.’ The officers involved were placed on administrative leave and were receiving counseling from the Boston Police Department stress unit.
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5:51 am on March 30th, 2009
WoW……….It never ceases to amaze me how SICK some people are…..
5:58 am on March 30th, 2009
This is so tragic… sad and painful for me to read. I visited his myspace and one of his friends left a message to him asking, “why”. Gut wrenching!
7:54 am on March 30th, 2009
I’m just not sure what to say….horrific? I don’t know. God what is wrong with him?
8:16 am on March 30th, 2009
And he thought murder was going to help? What a tard…
My prayers are with the family… your little girls are angels now.
Well he’s one less person we need to worry about . He wont ever be able to hurt another…. And God bless this brave little girl! God bless her… (sobbing)
9:47 am on March 30th, 2009
Every time I see or hear this story on the local news I’m in tears, such a horrible, tragic story. Everyone involved will need counseling for this for a long time I imagine.
Good write up So Jaded, you’re right about the officers involved that although in the end they saved a girl’s life, what they saw, especially the first officer, will haunt them forever.
I can’t imagine being the parents.
Rest in peace little girls, you’re with the angels now.
9:57 am on March 30th, 2009
Godspeed Samantha “Princess” and Baby Bianca, Godspeed,!! Fly with your Angels wings, Fly…..
Heal Seraphina, Heal completely Sweet Earth Angel, in spirit, mind and body!!
My prayers for Jessica and her parents, I pray peace for you all……
I’m saying prayers for the police officers involved, as well, You did all that you could…..
The devil has Kerby, now!!!! Burn Kerby Burn……
9:58 am on March 30th, 2009
It’s a damn shame he had been released because this horrible tragedy wouldn’t have happened. He was a NOTHING! I’m so glad that he will never be able to harm anyone ever again.
My heart, prayers and thoughts go out to the parents, grandmother, friends. May the 3 precious daughters Rest in peace and I’m so sorry that your live’s were taking so soon and tragically.
10:09 am on March 30th, 2009
May the 9 year old recover physically & psychologically she is in my heart and prayers. I meant to put 2 in earlier post.
10:19 am on March 30th, 2009
I’m an unapologetic rubbernecker, but I can’t take footage of parents reacting to that first news of tragedy like this. It cuts too sharply. And while I’m inured to the media exploitation of tragedy, I still wish they wouldn’t exploit that moment of it. Any parent can well enough imagine it without having to witness it on the 5oclock news.
10:44 am on March 30th, 2009
WHAT THE FUCK? FUCK ME AND THE HORSE I RODE IN ON…
I’m already done today-I need t move on…
12:33 pm on March 30th, 2009
So very sad. RIP Samatha and Bianca.
May God heal Saraphina.
12:37 pm on March 30th, 2009
Good lord. This is so senseless. Those poor little babies.
12:43 pm on March 30th, 2009
Nobody explained to dumbass that you can’t get a decent job with a felony on your record?
Think of how many other little thugs will be getting out of prison within the next 10 years with charges like this on their record and no job to speak of other than fast food or construction work.
Too many think that once they “do their time” that they are DONE.
WRONG!!! It’s called a record and it’s not as glamorous as in the movies, now is it????
Those poor girls. Those poor officers. That had to be hideous to see- I hope they get the time, counseling and prayers they will need to start the healing.
12:45 pm on March 30th, 2009
With his recent incarceration, I wonder if more news of his mental health will come to light, like whether or not he’s been formally diagnosed at any point. It seems like decapitations almost always signals some pretty severe mental disorder of some sort.
1:18 pm on March 30th, 2009
Goes to show – when you’re face to face with the evil – and you watch it do its deed – you just can’t say how you will react. Obviously, this cop was momentarily shocked – otherwise, I would wager he’d have taken that murdering mother fucker down before he ever got to the other sister. Damn. When a COP freezes or freaks – you KNOW it’s bad!
RIP Bianca and Samantha. So very sorry for the suffering and fear you must have endured.
Heal completely, Saraphina. I wish you all the amnesia some of these idiots claim to have – but I wish you to have it for real… at least for those few, harrowing minutes.
Mom and Dad – nothing… no words, can help with your pain. It’s bad enough when it’s a stranger killing people you love — but when it’s another person you love doing the killing — that pain is immeasurable. So sorry for all the loss you’ve suffered.
I pray this whole family is able to get through this intact. Tough road ahead, for damn sure.
Thank you SJ. Sad and depressing – but – that’s life anymore.
1:48 pm on March 30th, 2009
Untreated schizophrenia may be the cause.
2:16 pm on March 30th, 2009
not that it does any good at this point, but his deterioration, increasingly bizarre and violent behavior over the years sounds like schizophrenia.
its a brain disease, not poor judgement or thuggery. its an epic human tragedy.
i can’t imagine the pain all the victims here suffered and are suffering. my prayers are with them all.
2:33 pm on March 30th, 2009
It would be a good thing if the family allowed the medical authorities to examine this guy’s brain to find the trigger for his madness. He may have been on some really nasty chemicals along with his booze… who knows? This kind of rage against those who were the most loved HAS to have been caused by a disorder of some kind.
There is a lot of evil in many of the crimes on DD, and no doubt, this guy has his demons, but I can’t help but feel there was something really unbalanced in his brain for this type of crime to even happen. I pray for the family and the witnesses to the brutal murder of such beautiful children… God’s Grace & Healing for you all.
2:55 pm on March 30th, 2009
Schizophrenia may very well be the issue, here. At 23, he was right in that window for such a condition to develop, with peak ages for onset of schzophrenia being between 20-28. If he was a drug user, drug-induced psychosis would also be a possibility. They can look pretty similar.
2:56 pm on March 30th, 2009
As a mother, I would be completly broken inside. How do you bury your young children? How do you go on after somethings this tragic?
This is so very sad. I don’t know what to say to this…Rest in peace beautiful girls. For the family, I wish that with time, love and understanding you may too find peace.
4:07 pm on March 30th, 2009
Vronze’s employer, Local Motion, has set up a fund to help the family with any financial burdens they may face.
Revelus Family Fund
C/O Citizen’s Bank
540 Granite Street
Braintree, MA 02184
4:15 pm on March 30th, 2009
It’s my understanding that he has never been officially diagnosed, Athena. Friends and family had noticed a ‘deterioration’ since his most recent release from jail. One sister seems to think his problems stem from having served time…said he was a different person after being released.
5:12 pm on March 30th, 2009
I am too horrified for words. RIP Samantha and Bianca…and yes, may even Kerby find some peace in death. May God grant the family strength.
7:20 pm on March 30th, 2009
I bet he was, but – assuming schizophrenia is the issue – that incarceration coincided with the point in his life that a major mental illness would be emerging. the stress of incarceration could really exacerbate and/or accelerate it.
10:18 pm on March 30th, 2009
Sounds like jealousy to me — three sisters without police records, the oldest heading to college soon.
This guy was right he was “nothing.” Now he’s decaying and that makes him good food for worms, so in the end he made something of himself.
10:20 pm on March 30th, 2009
*sigh* I feel so bad about this. This has to be one of the most heatbreaking stories.
11:10 pm on March 30th, 2009
i just read that the family is burying the two girls beside their brother. I know it doesn’t matter to them anymore, but I HATE that their mortal remains have to be anywhere near his.
6:56 am on March 31st, 2009
If you check his myspace he’s got nothing but violent gansta rap videos on there such as:
“Gucci Mane Glockumentary DVD snippet”
give me a frickin break, no wonder he’s a sociopathic coward.
7:23 am on March 31st, 2009
Okay… I guess I cant really say what I would do until physically put in the situation- but Id like to think that if one of my children INTENTIONALLY killled two of their siblings (my children) – that I WOULDNT burry them all together. Almost like they condone it? I dont know.. thats werid to me. I guess your children are your children- … but idk this is kinda different!
11:40 pm on March 31st, 2009
The burials are about the surviving family, not about the dead. And those parents lost 3 children, even if maybe they lost the oldest some time ago, philosophically. They’re never going to be able to somehow seperate him out, pretend he wasn’t theirs, deny they ever loved him. I don’t know how someone recovers from a tragedy of this magnitude, but cutting their eldest, their sweet baby boy, out of all the baby pictures isn’t going to do it. Finding some isolated unconsecrated ground on which to dispose of his remains isn’t either. They were family for so long, sundered by this event I don’t think anyone understands. I’d bury them together too, I think.
And… it wasn’t the rap music. Jeez. Still trying to hang Columbine on Marilyn Manson too?
11:54 am on April 2nd, 2009
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Serephina is recovering and expected to make a full recovery.
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2:13 pm on November 12th, 2009
Its so easy to judge when you dont personally know an individual and its even harder when you do know the individual and they’ve done something wrong especially of this nature! I was Kerby’s Good Friend…Best Friend at one point and Its still hard to believe this happen b/c it was so unexpected and no where near his nature. Media is meant to over exagerrate on matters and place seeds in our minds. It pains me to hear his name ruin in such a manner granted he committed the horrific crime but those who truly knew him, know that it wasn’t Kerby who did this. Def. not the rite state of mind. I will always Love Kerby and miss him dearly and Thanks for the many prayers that go out to Sara!
4:04 pm on November 12th, 2009
I know I’m late on this one, but I just saw this thread pop up after being inactive since July, and I can’t bring myself to reply to the idiocy of xcstasylady’s comment.
I hope that Kerby died slowly and painfully. May he rot in hell. Ok…so I could reply…sue me.
BTW…
I can’t speak for what Popeye meant, but for me seeing the type of music he listens to tells me alot about his mindset. I have yet to meet someone that would be that “into” the gangsta rap music and video that is a sensible and caring individual.
That isn’t blaming the music for what he did, or for Columbine for that matter. But, you cannot exclude his personal preferences in determining what type of “human being” he was.
Trying to equate Marilyn Manson to the stuff that he listened to, is apples and oranges. The “artists” that are famous in the Gangsta genre largely get noticed by street cred (Tupac anyone?). Which is not earned by helping granny across the street. Whereas performers such as Manson are just that…putting on a show, the Gangsta crowd espouse a lifestyle.
To make clear, I am only using Marilyn Manson as an example since he was mentioned in the quote I reference. You could apply it to any of the Metal / Rock groups too.
4:37 pm on November 12th, 2009
Glad to see ignorance still exists! Its a different ball game when Youre on the other side of the fence to know that your friend did something of this extent. If I didnt Id being saying the same shit as everyone else on here but Im caught in between feeling both sides….SO ERACSURFER its not Idiocy its a reality…You cant walk a day in anyone’s shoes that went through this and I wouldnt want you too…its not an easy battle nothing but negativity!
As for the music…Has an affect on all individuals differently….I can listen to “Gangsta Rap” or what others like to call “Black Music” and be just fine with no negative thoughts or “Heavy Metal” “White Music” and still no negative thoughts….Everyone is different, different values, morals, experience hence the conclusion of thoughts.
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