The police have recognized the teenager woman who died from a brutal assault at her dwelling as 14-year-old Value Johnson from Palm Grove Court docket, St Andrew.
The Hunts Bay police say about 1:59 p.m., a person entered Johnson’s condominium and screams had been heard shortly after.
A relative who was alerted entered the residence, and was later seen wrestling with a person who managed to flee within the space.
Value was thereafter discovered within the condominium with wounds to the pinnacle and face.
The injured teen was assisted to hospital the place she died whereas present process remedy. Her relative, who had additionally obtained accidents, was handled at hospital.
Member of Parliament for South West St Andrew, Dr Angela Brown Burke, has expressed outrage and deep sorrow on the tragic loss.
“This can be a heartbreaking and appalling act of violence in opposition to an harmless baby. No household ought to must endure such unimaginable ache, and no neighborhood ought to must stay in worry of such heinous acts. My ideas and deepest sympathies are with the bereaved household, associates, and residents of Palm Grove Court docket, who’re struggling to return to phrases with this devastating incident,” she mentioned.
Brown Burke additionally known as for the authorities to behave swiftly to carry the perpetrator to justice.
“I urge the Jamaica Constabulary Power to conduct a radical and expedited investigation to make sure that justice is served. We can’t permit such a reprehensible crime to go unanswered. The security of our youngsters and communities should be our high precedence.”
The attacker is reported to be an individual of unsound thoughts and Brown Burke has reiterated the pressing want for stronger psychological well being interventions and community-based assist to forestall such tragedies sooner or later.
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