{"id":1126,"date":"2018-02-07T18:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2018-02-07T18:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:26:29","slug":"sister-kills-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Sister kills sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Noelita Lawrence<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Taxi operator murdered<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> <strong>pall of gloom now hangs over sections of Trelawny following two separate incidents in the parish, which resulted in the death of a teenage girl and a taxi operator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the community of Stettin was sent into shock when a sister was stabbed to death by her sibling.<\/p>\n<p>Dead is 19-year-old Kimberly Crawford, while her 23-year-old sister is hospitalized under police guard pending formal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Trelawny police indicate that at just 9 a.m. on Saturday, Kimberly and her sister, who reside in the southern section of the parish, were embroiled in a heated argument, during which Kimberly (the deceased) used a piece of glass from a broken mirror to stab her sibling several times.<\/p>\n<p>Police further indicate that the elderly sister then reportedly used a knife to inflict a stab wound to Kimberly\u2019s neck. She was rushed to the Falmouth Hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Unconfirmed reports reaching the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong> are that the sisters may have been arguing about the time Kimberly returned from an outing.<\/p>\n<p>Following the stabbing the accused initially fled the scene, but later turned herself in to Ulster Spring Police, accompanied by a pastor from the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman is yet to be charged as they are trying to ascertain further information into the deadly matter.<\/p>\n<p>There was more bloodshed in the parish on Monday, when 31-year-old taxi operator, Ricardo Merchant, of Jackson Town, was gunned down at his home.<\/p>\n<p>According to information received from the police, about 3:38 p.m., Merchant was at his home in Barnstable, when a lone gunman allegedly entered his yard and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Merchant was struck in the back of the head. He was taken to the Falmouth Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noelita Lawrence Staff Reporter Taxi operator murdered A pall of gloom now hangs over sections of Trelawny following two separate incidents in the parish, which resulted in the death of a teenage girl and a taxi operator. On Saturday, the community of Stettin was sent into shock when a sister was stabbed to death by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[149,18,314,30],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bloodletting","tag-crime","tag-trelawny","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}