{"id":502,"date":"2017-07-28T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2017-07-28T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:06:22","slug":"cop-dies-hours-before-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Cop dies hours before honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>A love cut short<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Michael Nattoo &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cThis Friday [today] should have been our honeymoon \u2013 I told him to let me come\u2026 I told him to let me come with him, but he said no, and that he would be back. But now, I\u2019m so lost.\u201d These were the words of a tearful Trishaula Morrison, the wife of Constable Junior Morrison, as she related to the Western Mirror how she came to know that the love of her life had died, after just two months into their marriage.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been \u2018together\u2019 since we were eight years old,\u201d Mrs. Morrison remembers as she managed a chuckle, citing that somehow, she had always known that Constable Morrison, a past student of Cornwall College, would be a part of her life. Having both grown up as neighbours in Sandy Bay, Hanover, the two shared a bond that many family members and friends suspected would have blossomed into the love it did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cHe was the kind of young man you wouldn\u2019t be skeptical of,\u201d Mr. Horaldo Anderson, father of Mrs. Morrison, related. \u201cHe was one of those son-in-laws that grabbed your attention immediately; he was fun-loving, and was totally committed to Christ, and would always try to crack a joke \u2013 that\u2019s the kind of person he was,\u201d Anderson added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mrs. Morrison, who relates to the <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Western Mirror<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> that she hasn\u2019t eaten since her husband died on Tuesday, explained that even while growing up as teenagers, their relationship was one that all knew and approved of. \u201cEven in the mornings before he went to school,\u201d Mrs. Morrison remembers fondly, \u201cI would cook him breakfast.\u201d Morrison went on to explain that whenever her husband, Junior, who was a formidable goalkeeper for Cornwall College\u2019s da\u2019Costa Cup team, between 2009 and 2011, had a match, she would cheer for him, despite being a student of Rusea\u2019s High School, one of Cornwall College\u2019s old rivals in the schoolboy league. \u201cI would always cheer for him. And in the evenings, because his house was close to mine, whenever he would go home in the evenings,\u201d she explained, \u201che would stop for dinner.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The two maintained a relationship, way beyond their school years, which eventually brought them a daughter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">TRAGEDY STRUCK<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">When the two got married on May 21 earlier this year, they had a life of dreams and goals planned out before them \u2013 a life they imagined they would always make the best of, as long as they had each other. But on July 25, tragedy struck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cHe agreed to get gas for the car so he could loan it to one of my cousins for a trip he had to make out of town, so I told him I wanted to come with him,\u201d Mrs. Morrison relayed. \u201cHowever, he assured me he would be okay, and that he would be back, and that I didn\u2019t have to come.\u201d Mrs. Morrison further explained that he gave her some money, and told her to go get her hair done so that they could kick off their honeymoon the right way \u2013 just a few days away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">He, however, would not return. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to reports, Morrison was driving along the Lilliput main road, and as he headed towards Montego Bay,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">the driver of a black BMW, who was travelling in the opposite direction, failed to indicate that that he was making a turn, which resulted in a collision. Constable Morrison, who was being accompanied by his cousin, who was also injured in the accident, was rushed to the Falmouth Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to Mrs. Morrison, she was in Montego Bay at the time, waiting to hear from her husband, but never did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI tried calling him, but I didn\u2019t get a response. That was very unlike him,\u201d she added, explaining that he would usually pull over if he was driving to answer her calls. \u201cWhen I didn\u2019t hear from him, I knew something was wrong. I couldn\u2019t even get my cousin when I tried calling him.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">DREADED PHONE CALL<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mrs. Morrison later received a phone call from her cousin, who told her they were involved in a car crash. \u201cI thought he was joking, so I told him not to play with me, and hung up the phone.\u201d But after realizing that he may have been telling the truth, she called him back. \u201cAre you serious?\u201d she remembers asking. \u201cYes,\u201d she remembers hearing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cAfter going home to pack clothes for him, and my daughter, I remember passing a group of police and soldiers at the crash scene, and I thought that they were just protecting his car from looting,\u201d Morrison said, as she made her way to her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">What Morrison later learnt, however, was that the body of her husband was still in the car when she passed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cWe were supposed to have a life together. We moved to Kingston, and started things there \u2013 our own family, but now, I honestly don\u2019t know what to do. I really don\u2019t,\u201d Morrison lamented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Their daughter, who will turn three years old later this year, still feels that her daddy is at work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cWhenever someone asks her where daddy is, she says he is at work, and that he\u2019ll soon be home. She\u2019s still waiting for him. She\u2019s still waiting for him,\u201d expressed a remorseful Anderson, Trishaula\u2019s father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Despite the support being received from friends and family, as well as members of the Sandy Bay Police Station, Morrison is still reeling from the loss of her best friend, and is finding it hard to imagine her life without him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Junior Morrison was just 25 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love cut short Michael Nattoo &#8211; Staff Reporter \u201cThis Friday [today] should have been our honeymoon \u2013 I told him to let me come\u2026 I told him to let me come with him, but he said no, and that he would be back. 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