Teen’s death puzzles Las Alturas

Newsday understands that her family found her dead in one of the rooms of her Las Alturas home at about 5.30 am yesterday.

She was hanging from a vacuum cleaner cord.

A relative told Newsday that information reaching him is that Faith and her best friend had made a suicide pact. Some of her school friends noticed that she updated her Whatsapp status to read, “Tonight is the night” and the schoolmates told their parents about it. Reports are that one parent was attempting to reach Faith’s parents early this morning but the call was not going through.

Neighbours described the girl as a lovable child. Newsday was told that she was the only child to her mother, Susanne.

“You ever see a child and wish that you could have a child like that? Well that was Samantha in a nutshell,” said one of the residents at Las Alturas yesterday. “She was nice and helpful. And she did everything for her mother. She never raised her voice, you never saw her vexed or frowning, and you would never even hear her steupes. We are all in shock right now, because nobody knows why this happened. This was one child that God just put here then took away.” Newsday understands that the girl was a student of St Francois Girls College in Belmont and, according to residents, she was a “straight A” student.

Newsday was told that news of her death spread quickly among the students of the school through social media.

Students are now expressing shock and sadness in light of her death.