Brooklyn teen, cousin, killed in Jamaica

[Gen]

Brooklyn teen, cousin, killed in Jamaica
Thursday, December 26, 2013


NEW YORK (WABC) -- A teenager from Brooklyn was killed on vacation in Jamaica, and now her mother is talking about what happened, and about learning the news. The teenager was visiting relatives in Jamaica, she and her cousin were shot and killed, only one day after she arrived.

No one imagines it might be the last time they see their child when they send them off for winter break. It happened in Canarsie to a mom and her 19-year-old daughter.


19-year-old Franciena Johnson left to see her grandmother in Jamaica a week ago. A day later she vanished there along with her 18-year-old cousin Nadia Fearon. The child's grandmother then called Franciena's mom back in Brooklyn. "She said, 'Brace yourself, because your daughter is dead,' She didn't know May Pen, she left house and didn't return home," said Suzette Clarke-Grose, the victim's mother.



Police found Franciena and her cousin far from the resorts. Their bodies were floating in a salt marsh near May Pen on the country's south coast.
"I was told it appears they kidnapped them in car, area was lonely, no one know what happened, found with gunshot wounds to body," Clarke-Grose said.


Franciena's mom was sorting through several hundred pictures of her photogenic daughter who was studying to be a nurse at Kingsboro College. She was born in Jamaica and moved to the US as a child. Her mother can't understand why anyone would hurt her. "She was a bubbly and loving, very respectful, I can't imagine doing something, she was someone you could only love," Clarke-Grose said.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9372809

[kia027]

Just read the story -- saddening. May they RIP

[Nunya]

Breaks my heart...

[Gen]

I don't even understand, kmt. If yuh a guh rob somebody just tek the money and gwaan nuh man, cho.

[blugiant]

I don't even understand, kmt. If yuh a guh rob somebody just tek the money and gwaan nuh man, cho.

nuh sund like a simple robberee. two young ladees hope dem duttee murderrahs neva rape. maypen gittinn wurst kingston

fiyah ann more fiyah pon dem duttee murderrahs

[Gen]

19-y-o relatives found dead on separate days
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 | 4:53 PM

CLARENDON, Jamaica -- Two teen girls, both relatives, were found afloat in the Salt Marsh River in Clarendon, on separate days, after missing person reports were filed for them on Friday, December 20.


They have been identified as Franciena Johnson of a Jacobs Hut address in May Pen and a Brooklyn, New York address, and Nordia Fearon of Fora Road in Salt River. They were both 19 years old.

Johnson's body was discovered last Friday about 10:30 pm when residents heard explosions and summoned the police.

When the police got to the community, they saw Johnson's body afloat in the river with what appeared to be gunshot wounds.


Fearon's body was discovered three days later about 10:00 am. She was also fished from the river but the cause of her death has not yet been ascertained.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2ohEdiX9w

[Pepper]

maypen gittinn wurst kingston

fiyah ann more fiyah pon dem duttee murderrahs

Dats what dem been saying for a few years now, Maypen worse dan Kingston.

This is just so sad.

[evanovitch]

Her mother tek the story to the US press cause u done know since she juss a returning yaadie , her death no rate the attention a tourist death would...even if she ha more money or live better than den a farrin...wid all weh a gwane a Mobay it wi tek couple tourist being killed one after the other fi dem do something other than mek the road from the airport to the hotels free of potholes fi dem tour bus mek quick time , not to mention mek all murder victim equal...feh

[blugiant]

Dats what dem been saying for a few years now, Maypen worse dan Kingston.

This is just so sad.

dem fraid a kingston, so dem murderrahs ann rapists run go maypen. da transitoree nature aff criminals ann ja incompetent police force neva adjust accardinglee

[blugiant]

Her mother tek the story to the US press cause u done know since she juss a returning yaadie , her death no rate the attention a tourist death would...even if she ha more money or live better than den a farrin...wid all weh a gwane a Mobay it wi tek couple tourist being killed one after the other fi dem do something other than mek the road from the airport to the hotels free of potholes fi dem tour bus mek quick time , not to mention mek all murder victim equal...feh

realitee yuh a chatt

too much preyinn pon returninn yawdees a gawn bye dem jamaican parasites dat y jamaica nuh more developed cah even dough diasporic jamaicans ar more likelee fe invest inn jamaicaa latt aff dem care too much bout dem life fe do so

[jah_yout]

Her mother tek the story to the US press cause u done know since she juss a returning yaadie , her death no rate the attention a tourist death would...even if she ha more money or live better than den a farrin...wid all weh a gwane a Mobay it wi tek couple tourist being killed one after the other fi dem do something other than mek the road from the airport to the hotels free of potholes fi dem tour bus mek quick time , not to mention mek all murder victim equal...feh

the (mis)-leaders of jamaica are a sad joke...
the fish rots from the head

[Gen]

maybe not as random as I thought, the Brooklyn news mek it seem like she had been living here since she was a child, but looks like she did just move to the US last year

Police probing whether obsession led to nursing student, friend's death
Abusive man didn’t want girlfriend talking to anyone
BY PAUL HENRY Coordinator -- Crime/Court Desk [email protected]
Sunday, December 29, 2013

A relationship with an obsessed and abusive man is being blamed for the murder of two female cousins, one of whom had only returned from New York on a visit a day before the brutal killings. Relatives of victim Franciena Johnson — a 19-year-old nursing student of addresses in Jacob's Hut, in May Pen, Clarendon and Brooklyn, New York — told the Jamaica Observer on Friday that her relations with her boyfriend, whom the police have named as a person of interest in the murders, had been rife with abuse.

According to relatives, the boyfriend had in the past threatened to take Johnson's life if she ended the relationship.
On Friday, December 20 — on what was supposed to be the three-year anniversary of their relationship — Johnson's body was fished from the Salt Marsh River in Clarendon after residents phoned the police about explosions in the area. The body, which had multiple gunshot wounds, was discovered hours after a missing person report was filed with the May Pen police regarding Johnson and her cousin Nordia Fearon, 19, who is of a Foga Road address in Salt River. Fearon's body was recovered from the river three days later. The Clarendon police on Friday named Johnson's boyfriend, Ricardo Grey, as a person of interest in the murders. Grey is also known as Baugh, Liston Dixon and Liston Grey. He is said to frequent Greater Portmore and Spanish Town in St Catherine; Western Park, Farm/Effortville, Buck's Avenue, Bucknor, Buck's Common, Longville Park/Salt River in Clarendon; Little London in Westmoreland; and Spaldings and Christiana in Manchester.


On Friday, the Sunday Observer visited relatives of the murdered teens in Clarendon. At Fearon's father's yard, a black banner, bearing pictures of the teen, hung above the gateway. Similar pictures were mounted around the community. A large group of relatives, their faces hung with mournful expressions, was gathered at the yard. They told the Sunday Observer that Grey was "very jealous" of Johnson and that he didn't want her talking to anyone.


"Franciena had issues with her boyfriend," said a cousin. "He kept threatening that he's going to kill her if she leaves."
They related instances when Grey allegedly assaulted Johnson, including an incident at a dance they had attended before Johnson migrated to the United States to live with her mother over a year ago. Emily Johnson, the victim's grandmother by her father's side, said that her granddaughter was indeed abused but that she never reported it to the police.


The grandmother said that about two years ago Johnson visited her with a swollen face and refused to say what had happened.

"I said to her, 'I know that you were fighting or your boyfriend beat you up', but she didn't respond," the elderly Johnson told the Sunday Observer.
She said she told her granddaughter to take Grey to her, which she did. She said she scolded Grey and asked him why he assaulted the person he claimed to love, but he kept his head hung and said nothing. At the end of it all, Johnson said, she told Grey, "If you find that you and her can't [get along] leave her out, but don't put back your hand on her." Ironically, Johnson said that when she first met Grey, after hearing that he was in a relationship with her granddaughter, she told him that she didn't "send her out to look boyfriend" and asked him to "take care of her and don't ill treat her". His response, she said, was that he loved her granddaughter. The woman said she found it strange that Grey had picked up Johnson at the airport when she arrived on the island on Thursday and that no one has seen him in the area since the bodies were found and that he called no one in the family to enquire about what had happened.


A cousin of the teen said that Grey had picked up Johnson and Fearon in May Pen on Friday evening. But while Grey may not have called any relatives of Johnson, he was actively making postings on his Facebook wall. He didn't address comments from Johnson's friends who wanted to know what had happened. "2day mek 3 years now mi an u a tlk y u affi left mi 2 day crying...," he said in one post.
"Candy no," he said in another. In another set of postings a Facebook friend said she heard that Johnson was killed by her boyfriend.
Another friend told her that "Liston is her boyfriend". Grey, who appears on Facebook as Liston Dixon, posted in response, "yes she is mi wife an dem kill r crying..." The Facebook friend, who said she heard that the boyfriend did the killing, later responded: "I know that's y I was puzzled."


A cousin of Johnson's told the Sunday Observer that she had broken off the relationship with Grey but still had him listed on her Facebook page as her boyfriend. A funeral service for Johnson is scheduled for Saturday at a location to be announced.

Meanwhile, Fearon's mother, Arlene Robinson, said that her daughter's killer should be brought to justice. She said her daughter was a "loving and kind person, who got along with everyone".
This would have been her last year at Knox College.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2os7JO9ut

[blugiant]

parsanal relationship sintinn

y so manee beautiful oomen gitt invalved inn abusive relationship ann stay inn dem

guess iff dem beat dem upp dem tink itt luv

shame

[Blackstar*]

parsanal relationship sintinn

y so manee beautiful oomen gitt invalved inn abusive relationship ann stay inn dem

guess iff dem beat dem upp dem tink itt luv

shame

It seems he may have shot her because she broke off the relationship. Anyway, we'll see the outcome of the investigation.

It's always so devastating to see youths with their whole lives ahead of them fall victim to such senselessness.

[kia027]

The most dangerous time for a woman who is around an abusive man is when she is leaving the relationship

RIP