Strange text messages from murdered bank supervisor

At her home in Mahaica Street, Waterloo Road, Carapichaima, yesterday, her sister, Abigail, 31, told Newsday that Quamina, who divorced in February, had promised to speak with her, and their mom, Betty, 58, yesterday.

“She was killed on Saturday by someone who slit her throat,” Abigail said, “and we never got to know what was the matter she had wished to speak to us about.” Abigal said, however, that it seems that Quamina had been trying to “reach out” for help, but her killer reached first, the murder of her sister who did not have any children and worked tirelessly at the Jamaica Money Market Brokers Bank Limited (formerly Inter-Commercial Bank) in Chaguanas, remaining a deep mystery.

Quamina was not living at her mother’s home, but had gone to live at a bank colleague’s apartment in Edingburgh South on the outskirts of Chaguanas.

According to a police report, it was at about midnight when Quamina, her co-worker, Josanne Allen, and her (Allen’s) boyfriend, Christopher Heerah, an intruder entered the house. Police believe that they were in the living room when a man, wearing a mask on his face, simply walked through the door which at the time, according to the report, was opened.

The man struck Heerah, 28, with the gun and ordered him to tie Quamina and Allen with duct tape which, police believe, he had with him.

The man had asked Allen for her brother but she refused to answer.

The man then proceeded to beat Heerah on his body.

Allen told police that when that happened, she covered her head with a pillow. Her boyfriend, Heerah, seemed to have collasped in an unconscious state.

The gunman, the police said, made his way into a bedroom where Quamina was lying on a bed. He slit the woman’s throat, police said, and she bled to death.

Abigail told Newsday yesterday that it was on Thursday when Quamina had sent a text message on her cell phone to her, which stated that she had something to tell her. The message read, “I have something to tell you and discuss with mummy. On Sunday I will meet.” But the sister said that they insisted that Quamina tell them on the phone, but she replied via text, “I will meet with you on Sunday and all your questions would be answered.” However, the family found it rather strange, an uncanny text message from Quamina, in which she asked, “Would you love me no matter what?” Abigail said, “I had no idea what she was talking about and I told her that I will always love her. I have the text messages she sent me.

I knew something was wrong and that she may have been in some kind of trouble. I did not know what was going on and I kept waiting for Sunday.”