Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer
A TURBULENT affair between a 32-year-old man and his teenage lover came to a bloody end yesterday when he killed her, and then took his own life at a tenement yard in Tower Street, Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew.
In the aftermath, the lifeless bodies of Nicholas Williams and Isheka Trudy-Ann Clarke lay yards apart from each other, both with gunshot wounds to the head. Ashieka, 15, in knee-length jeans, was shot three times. Williams, in a sports jersey and track bottom, died from a single bullet.
QUARRELLING SINCE SATURDAY
According to Detective Inspector Altemorth Campbell of the Hunts Bay police, the two had been quarrelling since Saturday. At around 11:00 a.m. yesterday, Williams went to Isheka's home where he reportedly shot her, then fired randomly around the yard hitting two other residents.
As the occupants fled, Williams reportedly put the gun to his head and shot himself dead.
The occupants, who were wounded by Williams' assault, were taken to hospital. Isheka's mother, who survived the rampage, was also taken to hospital reportedly suffering from shock.
Williams, who was employed as a cook at his uncle's restaurant nearby, lived across the road from Isheka on Tower Street.
According to his uncle, Sidney Williams, Nicholas hailed from Clarks Town in Trelawny, but had been residing with his family in Olympic Gardens for some time. He said he lived briefly in the United Kingdom and recently returned to Jamaica.
Nicholas did not hide his romance with his much younger partner, Sidney Williams told The Gleaner. "Me never condone it because of the age difference."
Residents from Tower Street and nearby communities converged on the scene shortly after the incident. Detective Inspector Campbell believes the gun used by Williams was taken by one of the onlookers.
