18-y-o's brutal murder stuns Gregory Park residents

[Mosiah]

18-y-o's brutal murder stuns Gregory Park residents

Bright 18-year-old was working to pull her family out of poverty, but someone slashed her throat
BY INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, April 20, 2012

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Amelia Pitterson had only just made the down payment on a plot of land as a step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating her mother from the Train Line squatter settlement in Gregory Park, St Catherine to a proper home of their own.

Having studied many nights by the light of a cellphone to pass nine CXC subjects at age 16, 'Chevel', as she was affectionately called, was extremely excited at the prospect of beginning a business administration degree at the University of Technology (UTech) this September. She was convinced that only a proper education would break the chain of poverty for her family.

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[Mosiah]

Time to put this flag crap behind us. Some serious work needs to be done on the crime front, on the economy front, on the jobs front.

[Islandman]

Tragic on so many levels.

[Don1]

awful

[Exile]

Sad. Sounded like a positive girl. The story never gave the motive for the murder....

[Rudi]

Once again they are investigating the boyfriend. Is when since yardman get so bummy as it relates young girls. Cho.

[Muadib]

maybe unnuh cyan hide it undah some ah dat Black Cloth...

[MdmeX]

Now a monster like that, how quickly can he be eradicated from Society? A clear message has to be sent to all these people who think they can just cut people's throat and continue to live, as if nothing nuh happen!

I pray that her mother and family can embody all the positive qualities that Amelia had, as they move along. Tough!

[Rudi]

Unuh? You can't use certain things for cover when it suit you. In that case unuh all guilty.