Eight-year-old Kevin and his three-year-old sister Leonie take a close-up look at a photograph of their father, Dexter Hyatt, in the family's album. Mr. Hyatt was killed by the police in St. Thomas on Monday. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

The controversial killing of a pregnant woman and a 26-year-old man, who was the breadwinner of his family, has left the rural community of Hampstead, St. Thomas, stunned and the residents crying out for justice.

Her first day, daddy's last

Sitting under the lime tree in their grandmother's front yard, eight-year-old Kevin and three year-old Leonie Hyatt stared at their father's photograph in the family album, not knowing that they will never see him again.

When a member of the news team asked if this was where Dexter Hyatt lived, Kevin, who was oblivious to the fact that his father would not be coming back home, responded, "A ya so him live, but him dead and him gone a town."

The two children were supposed to be in school yesterday, but their mother, who was recently made redundant, took ill, while the breadwinner of the family was controversially killed by the police.

It was a tough experience for three year-old Leonie. She started school on Monday, but that was the last time she saw her father. It is uncertain when they will go to school again.

"I am very sickly, I cannot see all that good and is me dem staying with now," the children's grandmother, Ruby Hyatt, told The Gleaner yesterday.

"I heard the three shots fire, but I never know it was my son dem killing," the 75-year-old Ms. Hyatt added.

Smoking a ganja spliff

Residents claimed that Hyatt, of Hampstead, St. Thomas, was smoking a ganja spliff when he was accosted by a group of policemen. It is alleged that he threw away the spliff and the lawmen began beating him as they quizzed him about what he had thrown away.

The residents further said that Hyatt was heard pleading for his life, but he was shot in the arm first, before they finished him off.

But this story has been denied by the police, who claim that Hyatt pulled a 9-mm Taurus pistol when the police accosted him. The Bureau of Special Investigation, led by Acting Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause, has already collected 13 statements from persons in relation to Hyatt's death and that of a pregnant teen.

The four policemen who were part of the groups involved in both shooting incidents have been removed from frontline duties by Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas.

The firearms of all police personnel involved have been sent to the Government Ballistics Laboratory to be tested, while the hands of the policemen have been swabbed.

The residents have denied that there were any shoot-out in either incident.

Her last words: 'Me soon come back'

"If she had just listened to me she would have been alive today," said a sobbing Tameka Smith, as she explains how Tian Wolfe, a pregnant teenager, was controversially killed by the police during a demonstration in Hampstead, St. Thomas, on Monday.

With tears filling her eyes, the 27-year-old Ms. Smith remembered the final moments of her 19-year-old niece-in-law's life.

"She was asleep and was awakened by a loud commotion outside, on the main road. She was three months pregnant and it was her first child. Anyway, she walked towards the door and same time I said to her, Tian no badda go outside, gwaan back go lie down," said Ms. Smith.

The pregnant teenager responded "Me not going anywhere far, me just going right yah so, me soon come back." That was our last conversation.

Tian was standing away from the crowd when the police began firing tear gas canisters in their effort to prevent a group of residents from blocking a section of the main road in Yallahs. The irate residents were protesting the controversial killing of Dexter Hyatt, who was killed earlier that morning by the police, in another controversial incident.

Clutching her stomach

"We smelled the tear gas and heard the shots. People were running for cover and when I looked up I saw Tian running through the gate, clutching her stomach, which was bleeding. She called aloud the name of her three uncles before she went silent and dropped to the ground," said Ms. Smith.

Residents rushed with her to a taxi which took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A graduate of Dunoon Technical High School, the deceased had been living with her grandmother, Josephine Hyatt, and uncles, at the family yard in Hampstead, over the last seven years.

At the time of her death she was pursuing a health care course at a nursing school on Molynes Road, St. Andrew. A group of residents with pieces of black cloth around their hands and head, or pinned to their shirts and blouses, gathered in the front of the family house discussing the events leading up to Tian's death.

"The little girl not even live any life yet and dem kill har," one woman shouted out. "We want justice," she shouted out again.

- Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator

FROM LEFT: An emotional Tameka Smith, mourning the death of Tian Wolfe, at the family's residence in Hampstead, St. Thomas, yesterday. Ms. Wolfe was killed on Monday. Tian Wolfe, the pregnant teen who was controversially killed by the police in St. Thomas on Monday.

Dexter Hyatt in better times. He was one of two persons controversially killed by the police in St. Thomas on Monday.

Ms. Ruby Hyatt and two grandchildren, Kevin and Leonie Hyatt, were in a sombre mood yesterday, as they mourn the death of the breadwinner of the family, Dexter Hyatt, who was killed.