The mother of the 20-year-old Ocho Rios woman puts blame on the police and on a crowd of onlookers for not doing more to save the life of Alisia Garey.
The family members of the slain bartender, are trying to make sense of her untimely death allegedly at the hands of a man she once loved and lived with.
At the weekend, police charged 20-year-old Ryan Edwardswith murder in the death of Garey. He was held within minutes of the stabbing of the young woman who succumbed at hospital. It is reported he was beaten and threw away the murder weapon after he was held in Turtle River Park, about 400 yards from where he reportedly stabbed his former lover.
Garey’s mother, Nadine Campbell, was with her daughter when the young woman was attacked and stabbed shortly after their visit to the police to report a threat against Garey’s life. Miss Campbell told the North Coast Times that police could have done more and that as the girl lay bleeding, onlookers could have come to her aid rather than to be taking pictures and recording videos with their phones.
Ms Campbell recollected that she and her daughter went to the Ocho Rios police station and reported the threat, made that morning, against Garey’s life.
She said the police claimed that they could not do anything about it.
“Mi say to the police ‘unuh a go let out the boy (Ryan Edwards) and him admit it before dem enuh and dem say yes… Him admit to dem him threaten fi kill her and him say if him did want kill her, him would, because him see her the Wednesday morning,” she explained.
Ms Campbell said that Edwards later was allowed to leave the station. It is after that, following words with her (Campbell) that Garey was stabbed.
She said when she realized her daughter had been stabbed twice, once in the region of the chest, she started screaming for help.“ These people are so stupid and all them do is in this social media. What fun can it be to watch someone die,” an angry Ms Campbell vented.
She said that most of the people gathered had armed themselves with their cell phones and videoed her daughter, with their main concern being if she was dead. She believes that if her daughter was assisted to the hospital immediately there may have been hope.
Ms Campbell and her daughter were transported to hospital at St Ann’s Bay in the back of a police service vehicle. The ride she said was very uncomfortable as she had to keep a wash cloth (rag) on the chest wound as her daughter battled for life.
“When she reach the hospital, she wasn’t dead. Maybe if she did reach little faster… Mi watch mi baby a gasp fi her last breath… Mi can’t eat. Mi can’t sleep or be happy, because every time mi see mi baby a gap fi her last breath,” Ms Campbell sadly recounted, Saturday.
