ATTACKED IN BEDROOM WHILE CHILDREN ALSO AT HOME
CLAREMONT, St Ann; August 4, 2025
A St Ann woman was shot dead minutes after she returned home from church with her three children, Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Dead is 37-year-old Sharon Barrett-Boswell, a businesswoman and farmer of Claremont, in St Ann.
(Sharon Barrett Boswell)
Reports are that Mrs Barrett Boswell had just returned home from the morning service at the Church of God of Prophecy in Claremont and was in her bedroom. The children were also in the house. Her husband lives overseas.
Further reports to the North Coast Times are that two masked men who had arrived in a motorcar went into the bedroom and asked her questions. Gunshots were heard.
Mrs Barrett was found suffering from gunshot wounds on the bedroom floor.
Her elder brother, Hopeton Barrett, with whom she was very clos,e said he was traumatized by the murder. “She is my bonununus sister, man. It is very traumatizing,” he said. According to Mr Barrett, he had a premonition in the early afternoon and just could not have dinner that was prepared. He got the news from another brother and it sent him into shock that he couldn’t even leave home, in the nearby Woodstock district, to go find out what happened. “All different types of mood pass over me,” he said.
Mr Barrett said his sister had gone to church that morning and taken the three children, ages nine, 14, and 1,7 along with her. He said she had not been going to church for a while, but went on Sunday.
He said his sister was an ambitious woman who had done several types of work but recently started an ice cream shop near Ferncourt High School and close to home. He said she was also involved in pig rearing and was on a course at HEART NSTA.
“We know what it is to have faith,” he said, contemplating the future as he tries to comfort the children who are now in his care. He told the North Coast Times that he would be seeking counselling for the children.
