{"id":2293,"date":"2019-04-03T17:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2019-04-08T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:44:36","slug":"beloved-security-guard-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Beloved security guard killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>17-year-old schoolboy detained<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Barrington Flemming<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A family, a school\nand a company have all been plunged into mourning while a 17-year-old boy now\nponders his fate in police custody, after he was detained on Friday in\nconnection with the brutal slaying of 44-year-old security guard, Clifton\n\u2018Cliffy\u2019 Lumley at the Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lumley, a resident of Llandilo, died on Saturday after\nundergoing treatment at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital after he was stabbed while\non duty at the school on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports indicate that Lumley was on duty about 2:50 p.m.\nwhen he approached a number of boys who purportedly gained entry to the\npremises by jumping over the fence, and spoke with them, one of whom was\nserving suspension, entreating them to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dean of Discipline also spoke with the boys and told\nthem to leave. The boys left but subsequently returned and it is alleged that a\ndispute developed between Lumley and the boys and the police were called. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HIT WITH STICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lumley, along with two persons, were sitting in front the\nguardroom when two boys ran towards them. The other persons got up while Lumley\nstayed.&nbsp; One of the boys allegedly used a\npiece of stick to hit Lumley on the shoulder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Realizing he was under attack, Lumley attempted to run into\nthe guard room when the other boy used a knife to stab him several times.&nbsp; He was rushed to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital\nwhere he later died after undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilary Lumley, Clifton\u2019s sister, says he was the eldest and\nonly boy of six children for their parents and his death has hit the family\nhard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur father, who is 74 years old, made one scream and cried\nwhen he heard. he has since become withdrawn and is not talking much. He and\ndaddy were very close. We had to rush with our mother to hospital where they\nadmitted her for a few hours to stabilize her blood pressure. As for me, I am\ntrying to use work to distract me. I plunge myself into work. That\u2019s how I am\nfighting to cope because we were very close,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said her brother was a peace-loving person who was\nhelpful to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe is always helping people. If he cannot do something for\nyou today, he would schedule another time to help you. Anywhere there was war\nhe would move away. So, I am so deeply hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Clifton is the father\nof three, two daughters 18, 16 and a son, 9 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LOST A GREAT FRIEND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Elrado \u2018Popeye\u2019 Smith, Area Manager of Alpha\nSecurity Company for which Clifton was employed up to the time of his death,\nsays the company has lost a major asset and himself, a great friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI rushed to the hospital when I heard. I got a chance to\nspeak with him and I asked him what happened and he told me. I was optimistic\nthat all would be well. But it was not so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith said he has lost a good friend and neighbour and an\nexemplary worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was a personal friend. Lumley was a true professional.\nHe was the quintessential security guard, always neat in his uniform,\nclean-shaven. He was always prompt, if the shift starts at 7 he would be there\nfrom 6:30. There was never a complaint about him, disciplinary complaint or\naction against him. Any electrical work that I needed he was always there to\nassist me with it. He was a good person very, helpful very kind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family, a school and a company have all been plunged into mourning while a 17-year-old boy now ponders his fate in police custody, after he was detained on Friday in connection with the brutal slaying of 44-year-old security guard, Clifton \u2018Cliffy\u2019 Lumley at the Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1249,714,30],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-schoolboy","tag-security-guard","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}