MURRAY

Nicola Murray, 28, was sitting on her bed completing her accounts' school based assessment (SBA) when gunmen invaded her home and pumped three shots into her body in front of her three infant children.

Murray, the eldest of six sisters, was killed about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in May Pen, Clarendon. Her boyfriend, 25-year-old Kenrick Turner, was also shot and is said to be in critical condition in hospital.

Murray's sisters, who had yesterday gathered at her home on Duke Street in May Pen, described her as their "other mother".

"She was the best. She was basically the support of the family," said one of her sisters, Sobrina Whyte.

Reports are that Turner was sharing the couple's dinner when two men entered their two-bedroom house, shooting him in the neck before going into the bedroom and killing Murray.

Court witness

It is also reported that Murray was shot at, about a week ago, outside her house when she was returning home from school. Her sisters also told The Gleaner that she was to appear in court yesterday as a witness, the day after she was killed.

One of her sons, six-year-old Andrew Samuels, played with his dogs while policemen processed the scene where Murray was killed.

"Me a carry me puppy with me because Mommy gone," the boy said.

Meanwhile, Murray's one-year-old daughter slept and her other son Vaughn Samuels, eight, wandered aimlessly around the house with tears in his eyes.

"A mommy teach me how to read," said Vaughn, who then spelt his name for the news team. "All when school not going on me have to read me book."

Murray was a cashier at the Ebony Park HEART Academy, a skill training facility, in the parish. She was also attending a tertiary institution in Clarendon.