CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, Jan. 22.2018 – POLICE have identified the body of last evening’s (Jan. 21), homicide victim as 45-year-old Shirley Dawn Morton of Hanleys Road.
At approximately 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 21, 2018, police in Gingerland responded to a report at Buck Hill. Upon arriving at the scene, they found the lifeless body of a woman in a house on Hanleys Road.
According to a statement from the Police Force’s Public Relations Department, Morton’s body had visible injuries to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. Chandy Jacobs.
However, the police force did not confirm whether the actual cause of death was a gunshot wound or by blunt force trauma as is being reported.
The scene was processed and a number of items of evidential value were taken into police custody.
Police are reporting that the owner of the house and boyfriend of the deceased, Wayne ‘Spyer’ Chapman, is currently being sought in connection with the incident.
This is the second homicide for the year, with the first being Cleon Brown who was gunned down on January 17, in Rawlins Village, Gingerland.
SKNVibes expresses condolences to the family and friends of the decease.
