Chaguanas woman murdered

Quamina had a severe injury to her face which investigators said appeared to be caused by a knife. Her throat was also slit.

According to police reports at about 12 am yesterday, Quamina was at her home in company with two friends, Josanne Allen, 27 and her boyfriend Christopher Heerah, 28 when an armed man entered the house at Gentian Park West, Edinburgh South, Chaguanas.

Reports said that the masked gunman, asked the trio about the whereabouts of Allen’s brother.

Reports said that when Allen failed to disclose her brother’s location, the man became aggressive and ordered Heerah to tie up the two females.

The intruder then proceeded to beat Heerah about his body.

Allen told police she covered her head with a pillow while the assailant was beating her boyfriend.

The gunman then escaped.

Allen told investigators that when the gunman left the home she was able to free herself and discovered her friend, Quamina in a bedroom bleeding from wounds to her face and neck. Allen said she and her boyfriend rushed Quamina to the Chaguanas Health Facility where she was pronounced dead.

When Sunday Newsday visited the family home yesterday, a woman said that the family ‘had nothing to say’ as she closed the front door of the house. However, Quamina’s relatives and friends posted ‘R.I.P’ on her Facebook page. One close family member in one post said, “R.I.P to my cousin who was murdered, just saw her the other night didn’t know it would be my last time seeing her.

I pray for God to give my whole family strength to get through this tragic time,”. Others described the young woman as kind and caring.

An autopsy on her body will be performed at the Forensic Science Centre on Monday. Officers of Homicide Region III are continuing investigations.