BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE third individual suspected in the brutal murder of 17-year-old Leanna Napoleon is currently in police custody.
Police have informed that 19-year-old Ivan ‘Chineyman’ Phillip of Shadwell, for whom they had issued an arrest warrant in relation to Napoleon’s death, had turned himself in to officers at the Basseterre Police Station on Wednesday (Jun. 21).
SKNVibes understands that he was accompanied by Jason Hamilton, an Attorney-at-Law.
However, no word has since been had from the police concerning charges.
The fifth form Basseterre High School student, who was residing with her adopted mother in Keys Village following the death of her biological mother some two years ago, was reported missing after she had written her CSEC EDPM exam at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College on Monday, May 8, 2017.
She was reportedly last seen on Fort Street, Basseterre in the afternoon of the said day. However, on Wednesday (Jun. 14), police had discovered her body in a shallow grave in Olivees Mountan and, a few hours later, her 19-year-old brother, Brandon Lee Wells of Buckley’s Housing Development, was taken into custody.
He was subsequently charged with murder on Saturday (Jun. 17).
Two days later, police had also charged 18-year-old Travien Liddie of St. Johnson’s Village with the same offence and he had reportedly attempted to commit suicide that same night while in a cell at the Basseterre Police Station.
Napoleon was the third female to have been killed in just over two months. The first was 28-year-old Morella Webbe, who was shot in the wee hours of Monday (Apr. 17) near her Cotton Ground home and was pronounced dead at the Alexandra Hospital in Nevis.
The second female to have been killed was 37-year-old Lydia Jacobs shot dead in the yard of her Grace Development Housing residence in Church Ground, Nevis shortly before 11:00 p.m. on Friday (Jun. 2).
Leanna Napoleon’s death had taken to 15 the number of homicides committed in the Federation for this year, which now stands at 16; six on Nevis and 10 on St. Kitts.
