{"id":3334,"date":"2020-02-03T19:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2020-02-03T20:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:16:37","slug":"last-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"Last Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>&#8216;Momo&#8217; regrets &#8216;Bumpa&#8217;s death<\/strong><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Michael Nattoo<\/em><\/strong><em> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At the height of the party, as the crowd clamoured for\nmore, 22-year-old Kadeine \u2018Momo\u2019 Ormsby glanced at her coworker across the\nroom, and was instantly struck with an idea she was sure would have sent the\ndance floor into a frenzy. \u201cStand on your head, and I\u2019ll jump right through\nyour legs,\u201d she whispered to her coworker, the equally excited Roxanne Evans,\nwho also went by the name \u2018Bumpa\u2019. As the two got set to execute the tricky\nmaneuver \u2013 known locally as the \u2018Chuck Tru\u2019, years of dancing together as\nmembers of the same dance group \u2013 \u2018Gladiator Girls\u2019, made them confident that\nall would go well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tragically, however, that was not to be. Ormsby has yet to\nfigure out where the maneuver went wrong, but, as she recalls of that\ndisastrous night \u2013 Thursday, January 23, she failed to complete the jump.\nInstead, she landed on \u2018Bumpa\u2019, who was positioned on her head with arms folded\nfor support, and they both came crashing to the ground. \u201cWhen we hit the\nground, I was on her back, so I tried lifting her up,\u201d Ormsby told the Western\nMirror. The former Spanish Town resident further explained that it wasn\u2019t\ninstantly clear to her just how serious Evans\u2019 injury was, or if she had\nsustained any injury at all. But that was all cleared up when she realized that\nEvans was unresponsive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I tried pulling her up at first, she moved her head once, so I didn\u2019t think anything much, but then she stopped moving after that. Then people on the dance floor started telling me to let go of her and to put her back down. That\u2019s when I realized something was wrong,\u201d Ormsby explained. The festive dance atmosphere soon turned to panic, with a number of attendees fanning the downed Evans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BUMPA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BUMPA.jpg 500w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BUMPA-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Roxanne &#8216;Bumpa&#8217; Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHer body wasn\u2019t moving, and we weren\u2019t sure what exactly\nhappened or what to do, so we called the ambulance. When it came, the people\nfrom the ambulance took her up and rushed her to the hospital,\u201d Ormsby shared,\nadding that she followed closely behind to the hospital, and was accompanied by\na friend of hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AT THE HOSPITAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we got to the hospital, we realized that they had put\nher in a neck brace and brought her to the X-ray room, so we did a wait fi hear\nexactly what happened,\u201d shared Ormsby. While waiting, the young dancer relayed,\nshe was asked to give a statement by police officers that had come to the\nhospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after, Ormsby learnt from her friend that Evans\u2019 injury necessitated her being transferred to the Cornwall Regional Hospital. Following the transfer, Ormsby went home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe next day, I got a call from my friend that they were\ntransferring Roxanne back to Falmouth, so I got ready and went there, from like\nafter 12, to late into the evening. Dem seh only family members coulda see her,\nso I was there, until I went home. I didn\u2019t get to see her though,\u201d she\nrelated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With her voice breaking, Ormsby explained that she went home\nthat night and prayed for Evans, hoping that she would be okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would never hurt anyone. Mi nah go dance and hurt none a\nmy coworkers, I would never do that. So I was just praying and praying,\u201d she\nshared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BAD NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ormsby\u2019s wishes unfortunately went unanswered. The following\nday, she received a phone call informing her that Roxanne had passed away,\nleaving her two children and a saddened family behind. \u201cI just cried and cried\nwhen I got the news. I really didn\u2019t mean for anything to happen to her.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things got worse. Rumours began to flood social media that\nRoxanne\u2019s death was no accident, but an intentional hit on her life by Ormsby.\nOrmsby\u2019s face was also added to a \u2018Jamaica\u2019s Most Wanted\u2019 list online. \u201cHow can\npeople say it was intentional and why would they do that? It really was an\naccident!\u201d a grieving Ormsby related. \u201cEven police officers who saw a video of\nit said the same thing \u2013 that it was an accident. I would never hurt someone\nlike that. I would never hurt my coworker like that. We never had anything, so\nI don\u2019t know why people would even say that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She issued a plea: \u201cPlease, stop bashing me. It was an\naccident. I didn\u2019t mean for it to happen. I just want to say to the family that\nI\u2019m really sorry for costing Roxanne\u2019s life. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018I WILL NEVER DANCE AGAIN\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of what happened, Ormsby was quizzed as to whether or not she will ever go back to dancing. After a long pause, she finally answered: \u201cNo. I won\u2019t.\u201d She was again asked, but her answer remained the same. \u201cI\u2019m sure. I\u2019ve made up my mind. I won\u2019t dance again\u2026 not after everything that happened.\u201d Despite wanting to go the funeral, a teary-eyed Ormsby is unsure of what to do, particularly given that, according to reports, she has gotten death threats. Even so, she hopes she will be allowed to pay her respects. For now, she\u2019s trying to make her way through this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Momo&#8217; regrets &#8216;Bumpa&#8217;s death Michael Nattoo &#8211; Staff Reporter At the height of the party, as the crowd clamoured for more, 22-year-old Kadeine \u2018Momo\u2019 Ormsby glanced at her coworker across the room, and was instantly struck with an idea she was sure would have sent the dance floor into a frenzy. \u201cStand on your head, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[1734,1736,1745,1742,359,1741,312,1746,1743,1739,1738,1740,1744,30],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-feature","category-news","tag-momo","tag-bumpa","tag-dancer","tag-dancing","tag-death","tag-evans","tag-falmouth","tag-gladiator-girls","tag-injury","tag-kadeine","tag-ormsby","tag-spanish-town","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}