Details About How Taliyah Lost Her Life
More details are emerging about allegations that a 27-year-old man from Discovery Bay, St Ann raped and killed a nine-year-old girl the stepdaughter of his brother, Saturday afternoon, September 23.
Dead is Taliyah Thompson, a student of Discovery Bay Primary and Infant School.
The suspect is in hospital in serious but stable condition after he hurt himself when he tried to commit suicide. North Coast Times reported the news on Saturday night.
Taliyah’s mother Jessica Taylor was at work when her daughter was murdered., the North Coast Times was informed. Family members arranged for her to be met at hospital and told. This is what happened. She collapsed.
Hours later she was able to speak about her daughter who she described as “Brilliant, Intelligent and outspoken.”
Listen to Taliyah’s mother:
Reports are the girl had been left with a neighbour by her mother, who had gone to work in another parish.
The accused man, a sanitation worker, lives next door in a large house occupied by an extended family. Reports are that he took the child from that house and nothing was considered amiss since they all lived in the same yard. However, after taking her to buy ice cream he apparently went to his section of the house where he assaulted and killed her.
Taliyah was found with stab wounds on the floor of the suspect’s apartment.
The suspect’s father who lives in the same house was awakened, about 3:15 p.m. by the sound of an explosion. It turned out that this was the sound of a bullet that the accused had heated as he held it, with a pair of pliers, at his head.
The young man had also reportedly cut himself with a knife.
When his father accosted him, the accused ran from the house, bleeding, and collapsed in a nearby yard.
Police were summoned and rushed the girl and the accused man to hospital.
Taliyah was pronounced dead.
The man is under police guard.
The community continues to express grief and shock. Businesswoman Kerisha Simpson worked closely with Taliyah in the Mini Miss Discovery Bay Contest. Taliyah won the competition and their association has been strong since. She said “It is the worst thing” that has happened to her.
Kerisha Simpson — close family friend and community leader.
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