The death of a woman and her daughter, by fire in St Ann, Sunday morning, is not being treated as a murder-suicide.
That’s according to the police.
Twenty-six-year-old Shelly-Ann Hamilton and her six-year-old daughter Gabrielle Lambert perished in a fire at an apartment they had just rented in Cardiff Hall, Runaway Bay.
The circumstances surrounding the incident led to much speculation by onlookers and observers.
Reports are that Ms Hamilton arranged, in late January, to rent the one-room apartment. It was only on Sunday, February 12, that some of her belonging were taken to the apartment when she and her daughter came there from St Catherine.
Reports are that part of her decision to move to St Ann was to get away from a souring relationship.
It was shortly after Ms Hamilton and her daughter entered the apartment that fire was seen coming from it, about 11 a.m. An alarm was made. The fire quickly spread through the structure. However, when the fire personnel arrived they reportedly had to kick in the entrance door. Reports were that it had been locked from the inside.
The charred remains of the woman and her daughter were found in the rubble.
Head of St Ann Police Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell said police are treating the investigations as death by fire. He told a local radio station that they would await forensic details, as part of the investigation.
