The promising future of yet another Jamaican youth has been cut short.
Diondra Morris, 21-year-old second-year student at the University of Technology (UTech), was fatally shot at the gate of her boarding facility in Papine, St. Andrew, as she made her way home with a group of friends from a fête on the university's campus early yesterday morning.
Another student also received three bullet wounds in the incident and has been hospitalised.
According to reports, the females were being escorted by three males about 3:35 yesterday morning when two men approached. The students ran and the men opened fire, killing Morris and injuring the other.
Students afraid
The incident has left students at the boarding facility shocked and afraid. The facility accommodates a number of UTech and University of the West Indies students.
"Everybody is scared, and the fact that it happened in front of the gate makes you fear that they might just come back," one female student, who did not want to be identified, told The Sunday Gleaner.
The incident has left the UTech community outraged and calling for urgent measures to ease the spate of crimes occurring across the country.
Nearly 1,500 people have been murdered so far this year, averaging some 41 murders a week since September.
According to UTech spokesman Hector Wheeler, there have been other reports of students and staff being held up in and around Papine.
"The violence has really escalated to an alarming level and we are very concerned about the welfare of our university community," he said.
UTech investigating
Wheeler disclosed that the institution was conducting its own investigations into the matter with a view to implementing new security measures to ensure the improved safety of students and staff off campus. The university, he said, also has been offering counselling to affected students and relatives.
No motive has been established for the shooting, which the Half-Way Tree Criminal Investigation Bureau has been probing.
Elsewhere on the crime scene, Lesley Morant, a 65-year-old contractor, and an executive member of the Opposition People's National Party North West St. James constituency, was gunned down at his home in Irwin, St. James, on Friday night.
-- Edited by Crazypickney at 01:51, 2007-12-17
j_anthony said
01:39 12/17 2007
di violence affi stop
Gucci said
01:49 12/17 2007
wow.. im stunned..
j_anthony said
01:52 12/17 2007
that is just a senseless killing
CALOSS said
02:19 12/17 2007
di music faternity fi jus rally together an block road till den mek SIZZLA minister a security.Dem foolishniss cudnt gwan
Crazypickney said
02:29 12/17 2007
Leave it up to caloss to give me a good joke.
linko said
06:40 12/17 2007
srry fi hear dat...............condolances
mz más quería veterano said
06:58 12/17 2007
damnnnnn. that f**k up , tha man them arr kill off tha woman them.. these ppl mad
fahda sensi said
07:49 12/17 2007
too much violence ... it haffi stop !!!
skendon said
08:09 12/17 2007
but a nuh joke ting crazy. cuh dis now. why man a gun dwn student fa. is nt a matter of security or nothing tho.is jus the fact that jamaicans hate jamaicans. a nuh bad mind ting or ntn. is hate. for example, a man step pan a man shoes. tel mi why u ago brush di bredda?di man seh sorry to yet u ago brush him. u neva si him yet inna yu life, u nuh no him! suh nuh mus hate u hate sb*m**oclady fi kill dem suh. and jamaicans stil unda dis mental slavery ting but is a next issue dat
Glitch said
08:34 12/17 2007
A idiot ting a happen more and more......No reports of robbery...
Crazypickney said
16:25 12/17 2007
I understand sken, and its indeed the utmost rubbish for the guy to kill the girl. But caloss statement a di best
Figs said
18:55 12/17 2007
Its not only hate @ skendon, people too aggresive in Jamaica. The youths in JA, esp. the males, have the wrong mentality towards their life and other people's lives. They rather get rich quick without working towards it. They rather have a bad man image because its socially accepted in some of JA. The elders of this time have failed the youths of today.
Badness Outta Style!
Nemsi said
22:38 12/17 2007
yep dis really reaching a level weh mi cyan bear but ppl dnt be suprised if there is some thing more than she being a student seeem to wild still... and di man only shoot di gurl dem none a di yute dem get shot ... anywayz condolences nuhbdy nuh deserve fi dead so..exams dun and she nah even get fi know har grade dem and har parentds who invested in her by sending her to skool lose them daughter star:@:@:@
bLaCkBeatZ said
23:05 12/17 2007
damn all girl dem a kill and just like that boi mi nuh kno...dem heart colda dan ice cream
Krazily Insane said
10:49 12/22 2007
Yow hefry d man dem gwaan wid. Can u imagine d b jus finish exam and a destress and dem uneducated punk ya jus shoot d b cuz she no want dance wid dem a wah dis jamaica a cum to?
And den dem ago tell d next chick wah get shot to dat dem sorry and a never she dem a shoot offa? but is har fren dem a aim fa! dem think sorry can mek d b walk again...
jah know mi bex star!
see d link ya fi d b who died. http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=898483656&ownerId=56895438&albumId=96531682
The promising future of yet another Jamaican youth has been cut short.
Diondra Morris, 21-year-old second-year student at the University of Technology (UTech), was fatally shot at the gate of her boarding facility in Papine, St. Andrew, as she made her way home with a group of friends from a fête on the university's campus early yesterday morning.
Another student also received three bullet wounds in the incident and has been hospitalised.
According to reports, the females were being escorted by three males about 3:35 yesterday morning when two men approached. The students ran and the men opened fire, killing Morris and injuring the other.
Students afraid
The incident has left students at the boarding facility shocked and afraid. The facility accommodates a number of UTech and University of the West Indies students.
"Everybody is scared, and the fact that it happened in front of the gate makes you fear that they might just come back," one female student, who did not want to be identified, told The Sunday Gleaner.
The incident has left the UTech community outraged and calling for urgent measures to ease the spate of crimes occurring across the country.
Nearly 1,500 people have been murdered so far this year, averaging some 41 murders a week since September.
According to UTech spokesman Hector Wheeler, there have been other reports of students and staff being held up in and around Papine.
"The violence has really escalated to an alarming level and we are very concerned about the welfare of our university community," he said.
UTech investigating
Wheeler disclosed that the institution was conducting its own investigations into the matter with a view to implementing new security measures to ensure the improved safety of students and staff off campus. The university, he said, also has been offering counselling to affected students and relatives.
No motive has been established for the shooting, which the Half-Way Tree Criminal Investigation Bureau has been probing.
Elsewhere on the crime scene, Lesley Morant, a 65-year-old contractor, and an executive member of the Opposition People's National Party North West St. James constituency, was gunned down at his home in Irwin, St. James, on Friday night.
-- Edited by Crazypickney at 01:51, 2007-12-17
Can u imagine d b jus finish exam and a destress
and dem uneducated punk ya jus shoot d b cuz she no want dance wid dem
a wah dis jamaica a cum to?
And den dem ago tell d next chick wah get shot to dat dem sorry
and a never she dem a shoot offa?
but is har fren dem a aim fa!
dem think sorry can mek d b walk again...
jah know mi bex star!
see d link ya fi d b who died.
http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=898483656&ownerId=56895438&albumId=96531682
-- Edited by postinor at 10:50, 2007-12-22