{"id":380,"date":"2017-06-28T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-06-28T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:22:49","slug":"cops-sudden-death-baffles-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Cop\u2019s sudden death baffles family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barrington Flemming<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Staff Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A pall of gloom now hangs over a family and the Jamaica Constabulary Force, who have been left baffled, as they seek to get answers surrounding what they claim to be the mysterious death of 25-year-old Constable Shanine Gayle, who was attached to the police unit at the Donald Sangster International Airport.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Constable Gayle, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy (34 weeks), died on Friday at the Savanna-la-Mar Public Hospital, after being admitted on Wednesday, complaining of headaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cEvery day as it goes by, the feeling gets worse. I really can\u2019t understand my sister\u2019s death, and I hope to get some answers soon. Just a little headache and she\u2019s dead? I really don\u2019t understand that. It has left an entire community in denial,\u201d said Lorian Gayle, sister of the deceased.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lorian further explained that last Monday, she took her sister to the doctor after she complained of having a headache and she came home Monday night after getting some medication. \u201cShe slept all day Tuesday, so I allowed her to sleep, thinking that she was tired from her duty as a police officer.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI woke her on Wednesday, gave her some tea. She did not take much, and did not eat. She was too weak to bathe herself so I bathed her and decided to take her to the hospital. She was not holding up.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

She said her sister was admitted and \u201cthey told me that she was tearing out her hair and was not cooperating, so they had to give her an injection to calm her so they could insert the IV as she was dehydrated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that night, Lorian said she received a call from the hospital calling for her to come to the facility to grant permission for the doctors to perform a caesarean section to take the baby, who subsequently died.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI came on Thursday and saw the ventilator on her, but I believed that she was not alive. They called me on Friday saying she had stabilized and could do a CT scan. I paid the money and they did the scan. They took her to the hospital where a group of doctors gathered around her consulting and then came to me, my father and my aunt and told us that my sister was brain dead and would need a neurosurgeon to attend to her.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Lorian said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are lying,\u201d Lorian declared to the doctors, \u201cmy sister died from Thursday but because you were scared of a lawsuit, you said nothing\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

CARDIAC ARREST<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She said they returned to the recovery room and five minutes later, they came to say \u201csorry, we have bad news, your sister had a cardiac arrest and died.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat was it,\u201d said a dejected and still confounded Lorian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Paul Stanton, Superintendent of Police in charge of the Police Unit at the Donald Sangster International Airport, told the Western Mirror that it has been and continues to be heartache for the police at the airport, including himself, who have had to be comforted by the chaplaincy unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not a pleasant experience, I was there when she breathed her last breath. I have to be calling in the chaplaincy unit to comfort us, even myself – I am head of the team here that has good workers and we operate as a family and for one to go and go so early<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>-I have not been myself since I heard about her death.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire Little London came out and that was saying that she was a woman of virtue \u2013 she was well loved and respected in her community \u2013 whenever you see an outpouring of love from any community toward a police officer, then you know that, that police officer is a cut above the rest \u2013as we generally say she is from the top shelf,\u201d said Superintendent Stanton.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a pleasant person who brought such maturity to her job, even though she was a rookie cop with three and a half years\u2019 service. She was the life of the party and made friends even with those who she prosecuted, she was firm but fair,\u201d Stanton explained.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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